Homeland Insecurity: The Pentagon plans to transfer Gitmo "forever prisoners," who are so dangerous even Mideast states won't take them, to prisons inside the U.S. Obama isn't just closing Gitmo, he's moving it to America.
In the past two weeks, the Pentagon has sent security assessment teams to a Navy brig in South Carolina and an Army prison in Kansas to survey the viability of holding hardcore al-Qaida detainees there.
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| Military guards walk within the Camp Delta military- run detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. AP |
Meanwhile, defense officials are reviewing other options, including transferring Gitmo's worst to civilian prisons. The Justice Department is quietly renovating a maximum-security prison in Illinois.
Don't worry, the administration says, these U.S. prisons will lock up "a limited number" of the 116 terrorists remaining at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. And they won't pose any more threat to Americans than the dangerous inmates already held at supermax prisons here.
But once the terrorists are on American soil, the administration would likely take the next step and let these enemy combatants be tried in U.S. courts, where their aggressive legal defense teams would no doubt challenge their continued detention. They'd also move to dismiss evidence obtained through "torture."Read the rest of this IBD editorial HERE.
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