Guantánamo: the most expensive prison on earth (click here)
The cost to house a captive at Guantánamo Bay is $800,000 per year, far in excess of other federal or state lockups.
Posted on Friday, 11.25.11
...That’s more than 30 times the cost of keeping a captive on U.S. soil....
These are the Republican priorities for the USA. Spend monies on prisons to house idiots of terror while there are empty maximum security prisons in the USA while they rob the elderly blind and stick it to them while they die.
The Republicans would like to call it honor, but, it is far from it.
National Security Policy Is Foiled by Congressional Politics and Bureaucratic Infighting (click here)
Obama sold out to the Republicans so they would pass the Debt Ceiling. And this is the mess we get for it.
The Republicans would like to call it honor, but, it is far from it.
December 14, 2011
The last two prisoners to leave the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay were dead. On February 1, Awal Gul, a 48-year-old Afghan, collapsed in the shower and died of an apparent heart attack after working out on an exercise machine. Then, at dawn one morning in May, Haji Nassim, a 37-year-old man also from Afghanistan, was found hanging from bed linen in a prison camp recreation yard.
In both cases, the Pentagon conducted swift autopsies and the U.S. military sent the bodies back to Afghanistan for traditional Muslim burials. These voyages were something the Pentagon had not planned for either man: each was an "indefinite detainee," categorized by the Obama administration's 2009 Guantánamo Review Task Force as someone against whom the United States had no evidence to convict of a war crime but had concluded was too dangerous to let go. Today, this category of detainees makes up 46 of the last 171 captives held at Guantánamo. The only guaranteed route out of Guantánamo these days for a detainee, it seems, is in a body bag.
The responsibility lies not so much with the White House but with Congress, which has thwarted President Barack Obama's plans to close the detention center, which the Bush administration opened on January 11, 2002 with 20 captives....
Posted: 01/03/2013 11:33 am EST | Updated: 01/04/2013 9:15 am EST
President Barack Obama signed (click here) the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013 on Wednesday, despite his own threat to veto it over prohibitions on closing the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.
President Barack Obama signed (click here) the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013 on Wednesday, despite his own threat to veto it over prohibitions on closing the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.
Civil liberties advocates had roundly criticized the bill over Guantanamo and a separate section that could allow the military to indefinitely detain American citizens on suspicions of supporting terrorism. Just as he did with last year's version of the bill, however, Obama decided that the need to pass the NDAA, which also sets the armed forces' $633 billion budget for the 2013 fiscal year, was simply "too great to ignore," according to a presidential signing statement released in the early morning hours Thursday.
Members of the human rights coalition that had urged Obama to follow through on his veto threat blasted his decision as a cave to congressional Republicans....
There you have it, the people of the USA have been successfully duped again! Forbid Wall Street should skip a beat.
It also passed a Senate-approved bill to avert a government shutdown on March 27. (click here)
Susan Davis, USA TODAY
2:59p.m. EDT March 21, 2013
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House narrowly approved a conservative budget plan authored by Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, 221-207, on Thursday on a largely party-line vote.
The fiscal blueprint does not have the force of law but outlines the GOP's priorities over a 10-year budget window to reduce the deficit and overhaul the Medicare system.
No Democrats voted for the plan. "House Republicans decided to double down on the failed policies that the American people rejected just a few months ago," said Senate Budget Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash.
The Democratic Senate is debating a competing budget Thursday with passage scheduled Friday. Congress will then adjourn for a two-week spring recess....
Democrats wouldn't vote for it regardless of President Obama's pandering. Hello?
There you have it, the people of the USA have been successfully duped again! Forbid Wall Street should skip a beat.
It also passed a Senate-approved bill to avert a government shutdown on March 27. (click here)
Susan Davis, USA TODAY
2:59p.m. EDT March 21, 2013
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House narrowly approved a conservative budget plan authored by Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, 221-207, on Thursday on a largely party-line vote.
The fiscal blueprint does not have the force of law but outlines the GOP's priorities over a 10-year budget window to reduce the deficit and overhaul the Medicare system.
No Democrats voted for the plan. "House Republicans decided to double down on the failed policies that the American people rejected just a few months ago," said Senate Budget Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash.
The Democratic Senate is debating a competing budget Thursday with passage scheduled Friday. Congress will then adjourn for a two-week spring recess....
Democrats wouldn't vote for it regardless of President Obama's pandering. Hello?
