[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 14568-14569]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             WHAT IS THE EXIT STRATEGY FOR GUANTANAMO BAY?

  (Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, Americans want to know and 
they want to know now--what is the exit strategy for Gitmo? In the dark 
of the night, the first Gitmo terrorist indicted for killing innocent 
Americans was moved to New York. The White House approved this despite 
the fact that 65 percent of Americans do not support closing Guantanamo 
and sending dangerous and deadly detainees to U.S. prisons.
  It's about time this administration started an open and honest 
dialogue on the future of Gitmo and inform the

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Congress before ferrying terrorists to America. This sneaky middle-of-
the-night move shows that the administration does not want to publicly 
answer any questions about their exit strategy on Gitmo. Americans 
want, need and deserve to know exactly where these terrorists will go 
come next January, and we don't want them here in the United States. We 
don't need al Qaeda recruiting and training hardened criminals in our 
prisons.

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