[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2510]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     KEEP TERRORISTS AT GUANTANAMO

  (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, last Wednesday The Post 
and Courier, under the leadership of publisher Pamela Browning and 
editorial page editor Charles Rowe, editorialized:

       President Barack Obama has asked Congress to agree to close 
     the prison at Guantanamo . . . Governor Nikki Haley, Senator 
     Tim Scott, and Republicans on the South Carolina delegation 
     are right to reject his call . . . Even the President has to 
     follow the law.
       In a world that has given rise to the Islamic State, it is 
     hard to credit the argument that the existence of Guantanamo 
     incites terror. In a recent op-ed column for the Washington 
     Post, Gordon England, a former Deputy Secretary of Defense, 
     observed that some of the terrorists who have been released 
     from Guantanamo have returned to the same nefarious 
     activities for which they have been jailed. Those who remain 
     had a record of participating in terrorism, financing 
     terrorism, or outright leadership of terrorism activity, Mr. 
     England wrote.
       In a little over 4 weeks, Mr. Obama is headed to Cuba for a 
     state visit with the Castro brothers, who may be considered 
     experts in the use of political prisons.

  In conclusion, God bless our troops, and may the President, by his 
actions, never forget September the 11th in the global war on 
terrorism.

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