Fox News: Obama is going to release terrorists into America!

[Dominus Atheos]

CQ politics

QUESTION: (inaudible)

REID: Change course on what?

QUESTION: On funding the closing of Guantanamo Bay.

REID: Well, the decision to close Guantanamo was a right one.

I agree with President Bush. I agree with John McCain . I agree with Barack Obama . Guantanamo makes us less save.

However, this is neither the time nor the bill to deal with this. Democrats under no circumstances will move forward without a comprehensive, responsible plan from the president. We will never allow terrorists to be released into the United States.

QUESTION: (inaudible)

REID: No, I really don’t think so.

We have -- of course, coming in July, there’s going to be a study that will be put forth on detainees -- what should be done in that regard. The president knew that was coming.

REID: I think this is a very -- the thing that we did is waiting for the plan from the president. He didn’t hold us out to dry at all -- hang us out to dry, not at all.

QUESTION: If the United States -- if the United States thinks that these people should be held, why shouldn’t they be held in the United States? Why shouldn’t the U.S. take those risks, the attendant risk of holding them, since it’s the one that says they should be held?

REID: I think there’s a general feeling, as I’ve already said, that the American people, and certainly the Senate, overwhelmingly doesn’t want terrorists to be released in the United States. And I think we’re going to stick with that.

QUESTION: What about in imprisoned in the United States?

REID: If you’re...

(CROSSTALK)

REID: If people are -- if terrorists are released in the United States, part of what we don’t want is them be put in prisons in the United States. We don’t want them around the United States.

QUESTION: Senator Reid, what changed between today’s action and the position the committee had last week?

REID: Well, in looking at the position of the House, that was more logical.

We -- we have clearly said all along that we wanted a plan. We don’t have a plan. And based on that, there’s no -- this is not the bill to deal with this.

We have a lot of other pieces of legislation moving through here in the next couple of months and we can take care of it then. Or -- we’re only talking about four months. October 1st, that’s how long this bill has to go.

QUESTION: Senator Reid, I understand you...

(CROSSTALK)

QUESTION: ... I understand you had a conversation with the White House today in which you informed them of this decision. Can you tell us what the reaction is? And then -- well, I’ll let you...

REID: Of course, I don’t discuss conversations I’ve had with the White House, and I’m not going to discuss this conversation.

QUESTION: Do they approve of this policy? Can you say that?

QUESTION: (inaudible) you said this before, you don’t want them to be -- you don’t want them around. The House position is -- the House position is to withhold -- not to have any money, but to set up a situation where they send a report (inaudible). If he sends a plan and they’re going to be around somewhere (inaudible).

(LAUGHTER)

QUESTION: (inaudible) say, “No.” Are you basically going further than say, “Send us a plan”?

REID: I’m saying that the United States Senate, Democrats and Republicans, do not want terrorists to be released in the United States. That’s very clear.

QUESTION: No one’s talking about releasing them. We’re talking about putting them in prison somewhere in the United States.

REID: Can’t put them in prison unless you release them.

QUESTION: Sir, are you going to clarify that a little bit? I mean (OFF-MIKE).

REID: I can’t -- I can’t -- I can’t make it any more clear than the statement I have given to you. We will never allow terrorists to be released in the United States. I think the majority -- I speak for the majority of the Senate.

QUESTION: But you don’t want to (OFF-MIKE).

REID: Only until we get the plan.

QUESTION: (OFF-MIKE) of your position (OFF-MIKE)

REID: We’ll wait until we get the plan.

QUESTION: (OFF-MIKE) mean that Guantanamo will remain open indefinitely (OFF-MIKE)

REID: I repeat: I agree with McCain, Bush and Obama: Guantanamo should be closed because it makes us less safe and it will be closed. We’re waiting for a plan from the president and (OFF- MIKE).

QUESTION: (OFF-MIKE)

REID: Can’t say anything but what I’ve said, and re-said it three times. Can’t say it four times. That’s how I feel.

QUESTION: (OFF-MIKE) because if a detainee -- if a detainee is adjudicated not to be a terrorist, could that detainee then enter the United States?

REID: Why don’t we wait for a plan from the president? All we’re doing now is nitpicking on language that I have given you. I’ve been as clear as I can. I think I’ve been pretty clear.

QUESTION: (OFF-MIKE) what have you heard about (OFF-MIKE)

REID: What you want me to be is not very clear.

QUESTION: But Senator, Senator, it’s not that you’re not being clear when you say you don’t want them released. But could you say -- would you be all right with them being transferred to an American prison?

REID: Not in the United States.

QUESTION: (OFF-MIKE)

REID: I think I’ve had about enough of this.

Jesus motherfucking Christ. I'm actually speechless. I can't believe Harry Reid, Democratic senate majority leader, just said 5 different times in a press conference that he voted against closing Gitmo disagrees with Obama's plan to release the detainees into the United States. That's un-fucking-believable.

[The Yosemite Bear]

So tell me, how do you feel? You pretty much copy and pasted that, and other such posts, I thought we were looking down on 'posted without response' type things...

What's there to say? I mostly posted this so people would point and laugh over the fact that Fox News is trying to argue that Barrack Obama wants to release terrorists and put them on welfare. It's not necessarily supposed to garner any insightful discussion. It's like that Dijongate story from last week.

Correction, suspected terrorists because they never had a trial. I remember at one point, the governenment was offering money to mercs and citizens if they handed over "terrorists". I wonder how many of those people were simply at the wrong place at the wrong time.

We know for a fact that a couple of British Citizens of Hindu Extraction were kidnapped from their jobs with BP and sent to there without trial.