House Dems refuse funds to close Gitmo, relocate inmates

[babsbunny]

http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/05/04/house-dems-refuse-funds-to-close-gitmo-relocate-inmates/


Published: May 4, 2009
Updated 3 hours ago


House Democrats on Monday refused a request by the Obama administration for $50 million to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay and relocate inmates amid speculation that some of its prisoners may be eventually housed in the United States.

“When lawmakers unveiled a bill to pay for military and diplomatic efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan through the fall, the money to implement President Barack Obama’s executive order to shut down the prison within a year was missing from it,” reported the Associated Press. “However, money could be transferred later — without a politically challenging vote — if it were needed to move the detainees.”

[Ocracoker16]

1. What?

That sucks.