House votes to block Guantánamo detainee transfers to Yemen

[dixiegrrrrl]

As ticked off as I am about Gitmo, it is clear that the blame for not closing it needs to be at the House's obstruction.

In a new move to stifle President Obama’s efforts to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, the House voted Friday to restrict the transfer of detainees to Yemen.

The House voted 236-188 to pass a defense authorization bill amendment from Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.) that prohibits using funds to transfer detainees to Yemen.

Transferring detainees to Yemen is a key part of ramping down the prison camp in Cuba, as 56 of the 86 detainees who have been cleared for release are from Yemen.

Obama had issued a moratorium on transferring detainees to Yemen in January 2010 after the U.S. learned that 2009 “underwear bomber” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had obtained instructions from terrorists in Yemen.

But last month Obama said he would lift the restriction to jumpstart the transfer of cleared detainees.

http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/policy-and-strategy/305607-house-blocks-guantanamo-detainee-transfers-to-yemen

[n2doc]

1. This seems ripe for a presidential order

Tell the no nothing CONgress to piss off.

Didn't Obama say he was going to veto all bills anyway until they do something about the sequester?

[elleng]

2. Its BEEN clear!

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Not according to many posts here.

[elleng]

4. I tend to ignore those, here and elsewhere,

who don't face reality and/or understand the way laws work. I don't expect EVERYONE to have studied law, but common sense SHOULD tell people why what's happened re: gitmo has happened.