films, the move to bring terrorists who are now jailed at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility to Illinois is back. Some things, I guess, cannot be killed.
Luckily, Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) is watching our backs while
Rep. Ike Skelton (D-MO), a lame duck, inserted language into the fiscal 2011 Defense Authorization Bill will allow the Obama administration to bypass language in other pending legislation that will prevent the White House from bringing the Gitmo jihadists to an American prison, including their first choice, the mostly empty state prison in Thomson, Illinois.
Such a bill has no chance of passing once the GOP takes over the House. None. Which is why they are trying to sneak it through just before Christmas.
Here is Kirk's statement on this lump of coal:
Instead of providing Congress with a clean Defense Authorization bill that could win overwhelming bipartisan support, Speaker Pelosi buried a provision in the House defense bill that permits bringing Guantanamo terrorists to the United States. Such a provision would weaken the security of our country. Therefore, should the Defense Authorization bill come to the Senate with the Gitmo terrorist transfer provision included, I will place a hold on the bill and would seek to strike the provision, restoring the current law that bans bringing Gitmo terrorists to the homeland.Kirk's Democratic counterpart in the Senate, has called opening Gitmo North at Thomson "a dream come true."
We should not put ourselves in a position where a rogue court can order the release of a member of the al Qaeda core. Just this week, a terrorist attack directed by a former Guantanamo detainee and now senior Taliban commander, Mullah Zakir, killed six U.S. soldiers in Kandahar.
While we could authorize a federal prison in Thomson, Illinois to support economic growth, it should never weaken our nation's security by housing Gitmo terrorists. I urge my colleagues in the House and Senate to continue our bipartisan prohibition on transferring Gitmo terrorists to the heartland.
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