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| Saxby warns against sending Gitmo detainees to Yemen for rehab |
| 2013-11-08 |
| [Washington Examiner] The top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee is urging the Obama administration to abandon any effort to help close Guantanamo Bay by sending detainees back to their home country of Yemen. The administration is in talks with the Yemeni government and is working with the United Nations to establish a rehabilitation center outside the capital of Sana'a to help transition detainees from that country back to freedom, the White House told the Washington Examiner on Wednesday night. From Bush overseas prisons and detention centers to GITMO, then back to Obama overseas prisons and detention centers. Ok, I get it. More than half of the 164 prisoners who remain at Guantanamo Bay are from Yemen. Those plans do not sit well with Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., the ranking member of the committee charged with overseeing the administration's intelligence and counter-terrorism policies. Those plans should not "sit well" with anyone. |
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