Pelosi: Gitmo Detainees Could Be Sent Home or To a Third Country
EmailDuring our exclusive "This Week" interview, I asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the longest serving House member on the intelligence committee, about the possibility that Guantanamo Bay detainees could be released in the United States, as some Democratic members have called for.
Pelosi said detainees could be sent to their home country or a third country.
"I don’t even know that that is a possibility. If a detainee — using the standards that the president is putting forth, reviewing why they are there, how they got there in the first place, I think there is — I know that there is provision for sending them home or to another country," she said.
"There are all kinds of options. But I think you have to take the first step to say, who are these people? Why are they here? Should they be freed and sent home? Should they be prosecuted? Do we not have enough evidence to prosecute them? And in what courts are they prosecuted, a military court, a civilian court?" Pelosi said.
"They’re going to look at every case," she said, "There’s no data as to who — why these people are there and what their record is and the rest. After he goes through that, he may end up with not that many people left, and then make a judgment as to where — how you proceed to prosecute these people or where they are kept in the meantime. But that’s why it takes time to close Guantanamo. You can’t just go down there today and say, everybody out and lock the door. They’re going to review the cases, narrow it down, and then go from there."
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Let Obama figure out what to do with people who want to destroy Americans. Hope one day the ones they release fly a fully fueled jumbo 747 airplane into the white house while Obama and his family and G0D Damn I hate America Reverand Wright are in it.
The Chickens are coming home to roost.
Posted by: same I AM a Democrat | January 25, 2009, 9:30 am 9:30 am
It is time to slow down and do some serious thinking…Democrats and Republicans alike. This is a serious decision that should not just be left with the President.
Posted by: AEW | January 25, 2009, 10:39 am 10:39 am
Gitmo enemy combatants….are fine right where they are..money has already been spent on the facility. Because if we have the equivalent Mumbai bombings to hotels, train, & restaurants over these Arab Islamic Murderers who strap bombs on children to blow up markets, mosques, schools…etc…and thus blow up innocent people…we’ve had 3,000 die already in New York.
Guess what Obama won’t be able to blame Homeland Security, the CIA.. if the same thing happens here …he will have to blame himself….and will have to resign.
Posted by: Terry | January 25, 2009, 12:23 pm 12:23 pm
Don’t worry, be happy. President Obama, the Messiah, the One, will make it all work. He will just wave his magic wand and all will be well.
Posted by: we_are_not_amused | January 25, 2009, 2:28 pm 2:28 pm
Don’t worry, be happy. President Obama, the Messiah, the One, will make it all work. He will just wave his magic wand and all will be well.
Posted by: we_are_not_amused | January 25, 2009, 2:28 pm 2:28 pm
This was a cart befor the horse. These terrorist will just do it again if they are let go. Nice talks with tea & crumpets won’t work. They cut off heads & torture, no matter what the USA will do.
Posted by: not impressed | January 25, 2009, 9:39 pm 9:39 pm
Closing down Gitmo and untimately releases the detainees from our countrol has to be the stupidest moves of all times barrack and nancy.
When you said you’ll send reenforcement to Afganistan, I thought that you meant for our side.
Posted by: Reality2009 | January 25, 2009, 11:59 pm 11:59 pm
It sounds to me that either Pelosi was not fully briefed on this important matter or the administration doesn’t have a clue about how to go about closing Gitmo. What is happening here is downright scary. Pelosi’s reassurances are not reassuring.
Posted by: MadJayhawk | January 26, 2009, 2:01 am 2:01 am
This lady is one of the stupidest people ever to be elected to congress. Why doesn’t she take them in Alcatraz, like her Republican colleagues proposed last week and she refused AND ABC conveniently didn’t report. ABC is a mouthpiece of the liberal minority and a sham of a journalism operation. George Stefanopolis is a shallow liberal piece of trash
Posted by: Rob | January 26, 2009, 2:11 am 2:11 am
TERRORISTS ARE NOT AMERICAN ‘HOME’ GROWN. THIS IS WHY THEIR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN SHOULD PAY FOR THEIR MAINTAINANCE AND THE CLOSING OF GITMO. AND, IF WATERBOARDING PRODUCES THE PAINFUL ‘BURNING’ SENSATION YOU FEEL WHEN YOU ACCIDENTALLY INHALE WATER WHILE SWIMMING, IT IS TORTURE. AND, ALSO, IF IT IS TRUE THAT PELOSI IS PLANNING TO PROSECUTE BUSH FOR TORTURE, I ASK, “CAN ANY SITTING AMERICAN PRESIDENT SERVE 4 YEARS WITHOUT ORDERING THE TORTURE OR DEATH OF SOMEONE?” TO BE FAIR, IF BUSH IS PROSECUTED FOR TORTURE OR WAR CRIMES, ANY AND ALL PRESIDENTS, PASS AND PRESENT, SHOULD BE EQUALLY PROSECUTED. HOW CAN WE BLAME ANY PRESIDENT FOR MURDER WHEN WE APPROVE OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT? IF WE BELIEVE IN, ‘A MURDER FOR A MURDER, WE HAVE NO RIGHT TO DENOUNCE ANY FOREIGN GOVERNMENT WHO FOLLOW THE ‘EYE FOR AN EYE’ OF MOSES BY, “CUTTING OFF THE HAND FOR STEALING, THE HEAD FOR MURDER, AND THE PENIS FOR RAPE.” THE MINDSET OF AMERICANS AND MUSLIMS IS, “IT’S OKAY TO MURDER IN THE NAME OF GOD AND JUSTICE.” GOD IS LIFE AND JUSTICE IS LIBERTY; THEY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH DEATH. THE BIBLE SAYS, “IF YOU LIVE BY THE SWORD, YOU WILL DIE BY THE SWORD.” IT IS SAID, “WE EXPERIENCE ONLY ONE TENTH OF THE ‘ADVANCE’ CIVILIZATION OF ATLANTIS.” IF THIS IS TRUE, WHAT IS HOLDING US BACK? COULD IT BE OUR ‘ANCIENT’ MINDSET OF SOLVING CONFLICTS. INSTEAD OF FIGHTING FIRE WITH FIRE, WHAT ABOUT SOLVING CONFLICTS WITH PEACE? WILL OBAMA BE THE FIRST PRESIDENT WHO PRACTICE, “LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AND THY ‘ENEMIES’ HAS THYSELF? IT IS A FACT THAT OBAMA’S ‘PEACEFUL’ NATURE HAS ALREADY INFLUENCED GHETTO KIDS TO CHOSE EDUCATION OVER NEIGHBORHOOD GANGS. AN OBAMA ADMINISTRATION HAS AWAKENED THE SPIRIT OF HOPE, EDUCATION, PRODUCTIVITY, AND SUCCESS IN THE HEARTS OF AMERICANS. I BELIEVE THAT THE NEXT GENERATION OF YOUNGSTER WILL EXPERENCE A WORLD WITHOUT WAR AND TURMOIL. THE ERA OF, “YOU KILL MY CAT, I’LL KILL YOUR DOG,’ HAS PASSED. WE ARE NOW IN THE ERA OF PEACE, LOVE, MERCY, AND FORGIVENESS.
Posted by: Sandy Obu | January 26, 2009, 12:20 pm 12:20 pm
Let Pelosi send them San Fran. After all its a “Sancuary City”, I am sure these guys will be welcomed with open arms!
Posted by: Mike_C | January 26, 2009, 12:55 pm 12:55 pm
It was my impression that many of these detainees were turned over by their own countries and other countries don’t want them either.
I agree with Pelosi that it needs to be determined why they are being held and either charge them or release them, but it seems that that should be done BEFORE making the decision to close GITMO.
Posted by: Hummingbird | January 26, 2009, 2:09 pm 2:09 pm
You people are colossal idiots who are not worthy of living in the country you think you love so much. What you are so patriotic towards is a figment of your imagination.
“Let Obama figure out what to do with people who want to destroy Americans. Hope one day the ones they release fly a fully fueled jumbo 747 airplane into the white house while Obama and his family and G0D Damn I hate America Reverand Wright are in it.”
Check the patriotism on THIS one! Way to respect the office of the Presidency. And possibly get yourself on an FBI watch list in the process.
We don’t do these things. We don’t hold people captive without proving that they are a threat to society, just because we’re paranoid. No. Some of these people don’t belong in captivity. It taints the grand American idea, which is much bigger than you and your paranoid freak “patriotism.” We are merely custodians of this idea and it needs to be cherished, and treated with respect and absolute devotion.
Posted by: Silky | January 26, 2009, 4:28 pm 4:28 pm
silky,
your right, lets allow those who are not risks to leave.
Ok, NOW exactly what are we going to do with the other 95% of these guys? They are going to get better legal representation than you or I could ever afford because the ACLU is going to give them everything they could possibly need.
Strange how in the eyes of ACLU, what Ohio democrats did to “Joe” was just a slip up…nothing big. But they will give these guys more legal backing than any US citizen could get in a lifetime.
I stand by my position here in other blogs. If we are going to release these men on US soil, the should go to democratic controlled districts. I am sure they will be upstanding members of those communitites.
Posted by: Mike_C | January 26, 2009, 5:01 pm 5:01 pm
The should move in with Pelosi. After all, we don’t have a war on terror. So, these guys won’t hurt a fly right?
Posted by: Roman | January 26, 2009, 8:23 pm 8:23 pm
Great democrats making the world safe for terrorist… do they have a clue.
Posted by: Philip V. | January 26, 2009, 9:43 pm 9:43 pm
I agree with The Daily Show…..
You can’t send Gitmo home now. Gitmo c-r-a-z-y!
I think we should chip them and deport them. Watch where they go.
Posted by: Two See | January 26, 2009, 10:26 pm 10:26 pm
“”There are all kinds of options. But I think you have to take the first step to say, who are these people? Why are they here? Should they be freed and sent home? Should they be prosecuted? Do we not have enough evidence to prosecute them? And in what courts are they prosecuted, a military court, a civilian court?” Pelosi said. ”
What problem could any American have with approaching these detainees with these questions?
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