okay. close it. would we have gotten information to kill obama bin laden had it been closed? no. we wouldn t. close it. i hope they tag them with like trackers under their skin. i assume that there s some way to track them. but keeping gitmo open is not in the best interest of our national security. john, close it or keep it open? that s absolute ridiculous argument. it s not a recruiting tool. come on. you release the dream team back to the terror zones. you close the prison in southern iraq in about 2011. that is the leadership of isis right now. so what does it cost to keep those guys here? a lot less than it costs to go back and these guys become the leadership of isis. whether it s gitmo or somewhere else. you can blame bush you can blame the sun being in your eyes and your shoes being untied. these guys going back and putting harm to americans is a
ashley you say more proof these guys need a one-way ticket back to gitmo and keep gitmo open for good? certainly. i think what we have here is proof that five of the most dangerous taliban pretty much leaders were let go for a trade for a potential desserterter and yet there are no ush 50issues here. this is definitely one of the biggest blunders of his administration by letting them go. i don t understand here how he thinks that it s okay to put the american people in the country at threat at national security levels here because of the fact that he chooses to let them go and release them. and i think that that is one of the biggest issues we see right now, given the fact that this president always is happily ready to claim victory for killing osama bin laden. why let five of his dangerous friends go and then, you know potentially cause harm to the american people. there s been a lot of talk
shame. our president unfortunately is a five foot guy in ten foot of water when it comes to foreign policy. all right, john. i think we re not characterizing look a lot mistakes for the administration. the main difference is bush put them in prison presumably for life i guess we re going to keep them at 2 million a year per person. obama s been flying drones and blowing them up in the fields. that s the main difference. i think that policy is better than imprisonment for life at taxpayer cause. blow them up in the field with drones. that is what obama s been doing. not putting them in prison for life. close gitmo. more raptors in the air. that s what i would say. look jonas makes some good points but unless we institute a policy and obama s not come out and said look we re just going to outright kill all our, you know, enemyies with drones we need to keep gitmo open. john alluded to it. what is the cost benefit of
time. that s fine. whether we like it or not it s become a political football. by no means am i ever going to say yes we should turn terrorists loose so they can kill more of our people absolutely not. there are things on the table never going to get past the president. with he should make sure america is safe and protected, whatever bev to do but quit playing political football with whoever in the white house saying we can do this or that. right now, gary b. these are the options. you let those terrorists out where they can go to rejoin other terrorist groups we ve seen that before with people who have been released from gitmo, or keep gitmo open. that s it. we can talk about politics all day long but this is serious. it s about lives. you re right, brenda. look jonas pointed out a lot of what if scenarios down the road. anything can happen. i will grant him that point but we don t have the luxury of looking into the future and deciding what s best now.
ten detainees have been released so how does it fit into the president s plan to close the place. reporter: last week the president said keeping gitmo open under mines our national security and that it must be closed. this goes hand in what happened that. the reason it wasn t announced at the press conference it was announced by the pentagon. that s where the news comes from. sometimes the white house doesn t want to announce something that officially needs to come from some other department or agency. so we think that s probably why. it was also interesting it wasn t asked about. we ve been seeing these periodic releases. in 2009 the president signed an executive order to close it down wind a year but it s proven extremely difficult to do so partly because congress keeps these things in the spending bill to make transfers more difficult. there are instance like this one where transfers are possible. these are considered for very low level detainees not charged not convicted of anyth