President Obama Ordered Gitmo closure

President Obama ordered Gitmo closure.  Is it the right thing to do?  One day after President Obama ordered that the military detention centre at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, be shuttered. It is said easy, more poblems arise on this decision.  Lawmakers in Washington are thinking of the  implications of bringing dozens of the 245 remaining inmates onto American soil.

Republican lawmakers, who oppose Obama’s plan, found a talking point with political appeal. They said closing Guantánamo could allow dangerous terrorists to get off on legal technicalities and be released into quiet neighbourhoods across the United States. If the detainees were convicted, the Republicans continued, American prisons housing terrorism suspects could become magnets for attacks.

Meanwhile, none of the Democrats who on Thursday hailed the closing of the detention camp were stepping forward to offer prisons in their districts or states to receive the prisoners. Senator Christopher S Bond, Republican of Missouri and vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, taunted the chairwoman, Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, by suggesting that the authorities reopen Alcatraz Prison in the San Francisco Bay.

On Friday, a spokesman for Feinstein countered that Alcatraz now was a “national park and tourist attraction, not a functioning prison,” and that the senator “does not consider it a suitable place to house detainees.” But Feinstein does believe that some Guantánamo prisoners could be moved to maximum-security civilian or military prisons in the United States, the spokesman said, not naming any specific ones.