[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 12]
[House]
[Pages 16063-16064]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             GUANTANAMO BAY

  (Mr. MORAN of Virginia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MORAN of Virginia. Madam Speaker, for weeks this body has been 
subjected to uninformed, false demagoguery with regard to President 
Obama's effort to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay.
  I want to share some actual facts with regard to the people at 
Guantanamo Bay. There were 772 sent between the years 2001 and 2003. 
They are clearly not the worst of the worst. According to the 
Department of Defense's own Combatant Status Review Tribunal, only 8 
percent of detainees were characterized as fighters, 92 percent were 
not fighters.
  Of all the foreign nationals at Guantanamo Bay, only 5 percent were 
captured by United States forces, 2 percent by coalition forces, but 93 
percent were turned in primarily by Pakistani forces in return for 
ransom, oftentimes for as much as $5,000. And from DoD records, a 
significant majority of the detainees are not even accused of 
committing a single hostile act.

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  Madam Speaker, it is time to put aside the rhetoric and start 
informing our constituents. We are a better Nation than the demagoguery 
we've been subjected to over Guantanamo Bay.

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