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Republicans seek new limits on Guantanamo prisoner transfers
Source: Reuters
Politics | Mon Apr 27, 2015 3:46pm EDT
Republicans seek new limits on Guantanamo prisoner transfers
WASHINGTON | BY PATRICIA ZENGERLE
(Reuters) - Republican lawmakers have unveiled plans to make it harder to transfer inmates from the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, stepping up a campaign to slow President Barack Obama's efforts to close the controversial detention center.
The proposed 2016 National Defense Authorization Act released on Monday renewed an annual ban on spending to transfer prisoners to the United States from the detention center.
The bill added new restrictions, including rescinding Obama's authority to unilaterally transfer detainees. It would require that any transfer take place only when the Secretary of Defense could certify that a country receiving prisoners would maintain control over them to ensure they cannot threaten the United States.
And it bars the transfer of detainees to combat zones, after some were sent home to Afghanistan.
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Republicans seek new limits on Guantanamo prisoner transfers
WASHINGTON | BY PATRICIA ZENGERLE
(Reuters) - Republican lawmakers have unveiled plans to make it harder to transfer inmates from the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, stepping up a campaign to slow President Barack Obama's efforts to close the controversial detention center.
The proposed 2016 National Defense Authorization Act released on Monday renewed an annual ban on spending to transfer prisoners to the United States from the detention center.
The bill added new restrictions, including rescinding Obama's authority to unilaterally transfer detainees. It would require that any transfer take place only when the Secretary of Defense could certify that a country receiving prisoners would maintain control over them to ensure they cannot threaten the United States.
And it bars the transfer of detainees to combat zones, after some were sent home to Afghanistan.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/27/us-usa-defense-guantanamo-idUSKBN0NI24920150427
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