7488002. Guantanamo bay prison, what should be done with it . Withary miami herald the story. Sixdeal that dropped detainees in uruguay is seen as the vanguard of future south american settlements in attempts to close guantanamo. Rogers, who is currently the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee was on cnn cost state of the union yesterday. [video clip] them are not from uruguay. There from all over the rest of the world. Some of the services that do these agreements cant do it. We pay money. To these countries who take these prisoners that is not their culture or they are from. The services are supposed to monitor these people. What we have found in the past is that it does not work very well. I do not think that surprises anybody. Maybe we ought to rethink what we are doing here. Some past released prisoners are reengaged in the terrorist fight. Those of us who try to do the review of this were so concerned because they were so interested in getting them out, they forgot due diligence. Mike rogers talking about the detainees transferred from Guantanamo Bay to uruguay and saying, this should not have been done. We turn to all of you, because this is return renewing the fight over gitmo. What should be done . ,epublicans 202 7488001 democrats 202 7488000,. Ndependents 202 7488002 the u. S. Military dropped off six long ago cleared what time all caps is in uruguay on sunday, culminating a complex onagain offagain deal to resettle the men in the nation of hose a multigot jose m ujica. Detainees from syria palestine and tunisia. None have ever been charged with a crime. All are to start new lives in the south american nation with the help of spanish lessons offered to them since march at the u. S. Navy prison in cuba. All six prisoners sent to uruguay got to guantanamo in 2002. What are your thoughts . Darrell in defiance, missouri is our first caller. Caller i think wonton amo should be closed and burned to the ground. Guantanamo should be closed and burned to the ground. How can we torture them and wonder if we release them, they are going to come back and join the fight . If i was tortured and they let me out, i would be on the front line, going after america for this atrocity. It is not only guantanamo, we have black sites all over the world where we take people and torture them. We have known this for a long time. It is terrible what we are doing to these people. We sit up here and act like we are surprised when we let them go and half of them are not charged for anything. It is just crazy. I do not understand this country anymore. I wasas a detainee and released, i would be coming after your asks. Host christine is a republican. Concerned with the fight against isis, threats against the u. S. Military that are very active, wearing uniforms in some states. These people, prisoners that have threatened to harm us would be crossing the border from uruguay, they can go through Central America and up like many people do. We are putting our nation at risk. Thata person that believes there are rights to fair trial. It seems like a dumping the job by the u. S. Government. To the safetyng of our country, our children. There has to be a better solution. It seems almost like it was a rash decision. I would like to know more about our relationship with uruguay and how these things this just seems to be a random decision. Host i can read a little bit from the New York Times. Your thoughts on what should be done with Guantanamo Bay. The white house said yesterday that six detainees from gitmo were, on sunday, transferred to uruguay. You heard mike rogers from the House Intelligence Committee weigh in on this saying they have concerns about this. In light of the fight against isis. And whether or not these folks are being monitored. He Washington Post they say in their piece in an therview in may,mujica said prisoners would be considered governmentd that the did not intend to monitor them. What do you make of all this with that . Republicans , democrats 202 7488000, and independence 202 7488002. This is what Clifford Sloan had to say. Says thisment he transfer is a major milestone in our efforts to close the facility. Something president obama promised to do. Independent. Good morning to you. Jean, you are on the air. Extreme danger to our to continue toty release people that have sworn to the destruction of the United States of america and our greatest friend, israel. Host mike, north carolina, republican. Caller good morning. Host what should be done . Caller i think it should remain open as long as we are at war with jihadist groups. It is a prisoner of war camp. That is something that always gets lost in the discussion. We can debate the details. Both the wars in iraq and afghanistan were approved by the United States congress. The people that are detained at guantanamo are prisoners of war. There are captured either on the battlefield or by other means, but thats what guantanamo is. It is a Standard Operating Procedure in all conflicts, going back as far as i can remember. Ofo not understand the level passion about closing it from the left. It is purely ideological in the way that president obama is going about releasing prisoners is his way of closing it. We are not repopulating it. Morere we not capturing people, bringing them there and interrogating them . In my opinion, if the wars are expanding with isis and isil or whatever we want to call it, guantanamo should be expanded. Host what do you make of the six . Gitmo since 2002 and they have never been charged with a crime. Questionhat is a good but it is a question with a false premise. We do not try prisoners of war. Prisoners of war our soldiers. If they were caught inside the United States doing espionage or Something Like that, those types of combatants can be put on trial. Prisoners of war are not put on trial. They are fighting in a war inst us being directed by either the country they live in but in this case it is not a country it is a terrorist organization. We are in uncharted waters. That question goes to the point of how do you look at this . Do you look at it as a law and order situation or a criminal situation . No. Fighting against the United States and trying to kill american citizens is not like robbing a 711. It is war. You put people in prisoners of war cant. Host scotty in del barton, West Virginia. These are prisoners of war, not common criminals. The government never thought this all the way through when all this come about. Under the geneva convention, we have to take care of these individuals because they are prisoners of war. The thing of it is, with our government, they have to do does go things. The a their have to turn them loose on another country so they can kill them or we got a keep them. If they want to call them criminals, im sure we have maxed Security Prisons we are paying millions of dollars that can take these individuals and put them in a cell. To arement has these people prisoners of war . Host what do you think if they decide to close Guantanamo Bay and bring the prisoners to the United States and incarcerate them here until some sort of trial . That is what the administration has set they would like to do. That was omitted from the Defense Authorization bill which the house approved on thursday. The senate is going to take it up this week for they leave town and close the book on the 113th congress. What do you think of that idea . Caller that would open up a new can of worms for government. They would have to get lawyers and be provided with attorneys and be tried like a civilian instead of a prisoner of war that is protected under geneva convention. Host that was scotty. We are getting your thoughts on what should be done with Guantanamo Bay. After this headline makes the front page. Six detaineess held at guantanamo. It is the front page of the New York Times. Transfer was notable because the deal had been publicly known since it was finalized last spring. In signinghuck hagel off on the arrangement placed in jeopardy. Thisr hagels slow pace year in approving proposed transfers of lowlevel detainees contributed to larger tensions with the white house before his resignation under pressure last month. Since november it has transferred 13 more, that is the pentagon. There are now been 30 transfers under mr. Hagels watch. Only four were transferred under his predecessor who ran the july 2011 to february 2013. Some 69 detainees would remain. They are either facing charges before a military commission or deemed unable to be tried but too dangerous to release. The Obama Administration hopes that if it can shrink the inmate population to two digits, congress will revoke a law that bars the transfer of detainees into the United States. It would be cheaper for taxpayers to house the inmates on domestic soil. The white house argues that closing guantanamo would eliminate a propaganda signal symbol. George in florida, republican. I am a Vietnam Combat that. If these men did not do anything , i would saycally i would not say give them a but not told him for 12 years either. I was going to go to uruguay next year. I do not know if im going to go now. Charles krauthammer this is whl follow. Facebooken looking at , Charles Krauthammer for president. I think what he says is what i follow. Thank you for giving me a chance to talk about the detainees. Host a tweet from senator Dianne Feinstein who is currently the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence committee. She tweeted this out this summer. She said, good reminder in this column that it costs 2. 8 million a year to house each gitmo detainee, yet another reason to close it. You can see the philosophy there. An independent caller. I am really happy that this debate is taking place. Hasink the United States two faces. We cannot be a democratic country and at the same time occupying land in cuba and also having people detained without fair trial. As you mentioned before, these prisoners are being have not been charged with any crime. At the beginning of the second people were turned in. People were turning in their own enemies. Nobody knew. People were just accused by other people looking for money. That is the case of many people who were kill still in guantanamo would not been charged with anything. Guantanamo should definitely be closed. There are many reasons why it is a good thing to stop. Those were concerned, they should realize that uruguay is a country in the southern tip of south america and it will be thousands and thousands of miles travel to get back into the United States. Are ready to rebuild a life. Uruguay would be a great place. They can enjoy the rest of their lives in peace. I do not think they would want to go back and attempt anything if they want to left alone and happy. ,ost one of these prisoners his profile has been raised because of the forcefeeding that has been done. He is one of the prisoners that went on a Hunger Strike. The New York TimesEditorial Board weighing in. Years the Detention Center at a time obey at one time obey has imprisoned hundreds of men without any charges or meaningful access to courts. If officials have their way, that blackout will include videotape of forcefeeding inmates who had been on a Hunger Strike for as long as 21 months to protest their endless detention. Lawyers for the Justice Department filed a notice of appeal on a federal court order issued in october requiring the release of 28 tapes recorded by the guards of their handling of one of the striking prisoners. The government defends its secrecy by having it both ways. , officials insist, depict only lawful inhumane behavior by guards. Releasing the tapes would cause international outrage. Endangering american soldiers abroad. Obama, who is spoken to the countrys willingness to act on Human Dignity has it in his power to release the tapes. Be able tohould decide for themselves how to define and protect that dignity. That is one related story to this. The New York Times weighing in on this saying the tapes should be released. Headlineork times amorning saying that longawaited report condemning torture by the Central Intelligence agency has not been made public yet. Team hasesident bushs decided to link arms with former intelligence officials and challenge its conclusions. The report is said to assert the the cia misled mr. Bush extent and results of brutal techniques like waterboarding. Instead, it says bush and his closest advisers decided to stand behind these guys as one official put it. On face then was nation and he was asked about this. [video clip] this had not been my program up to that point. I was free to stop it cold and i spent the summer of 2006 looking at the facts, documents and most importantly, people. I talked to analysts, interrogators. At the end of the summer i recommend it to president bush. Hat we reduced the program that program had been so valuable that we could not stop it altogether, even though now we had more intelligence on al qaeda for the detainees and other sources. Even then, the program had. Roven its worth i could not take it off the table in conscience. Host that is the former cia director, michael hayden. That report, expected to be released tomorrow. We will be watching to see what happens there. Some tweets for you from members of congress about Guantanamo Bay. Kelly ayotte tweeted this. As we look at what is happening around the world, the need for gitmo has become more apparent. Also, the speaker of the house saying, president obama continues to release terrorists from gitmo even though some have reportedly join isil. Pat roberts, who just won reelection tweeting this out. I have promised to keep gitmo terrorists out of kansas. The fight continues are you not on my watch. Talking about language that has been omitted from the Defense Authorization bill that would allow gitmo detainees to come to the United States. On house approved it thursday, the senate is expected to do so this week before they leave town for the holiday recess. They will not be returning until january when republicans will be gaveling in. Tommy in louisiana, democratic caller. Caller good morning. I would like to say, we should put a chip in them, follow them and if they go back to war, kill them. We cannot keep spending this money on these people. That is my comment. One more about privatizing the prisons. People better stop it. When you privatize the prisons in america, you have to keep it full. K k you. Host alan in tallahassee, florida. Caller hello. Host good morning to you. Caller good morning. I want to say that this administration is more on the side of the terrorist and they are this country. When people realize that and start taking Political Action to control the Obama Administration and the socialist democrats that are helping him make this country more communist and socialist, the better off we will be. I think obama and his crowd are on their side and not ours. Host patrick in ohio. What do you think . , a couplerst of all callers back, he talked about detainees in gitmo who are radicalized jihadists for the most part. They are prisoners not criminals. The reason to have gitmo, when you have prisoners who are a threat to america and to our hold and being able to control these individuals but soil is aoff american wise decision. Furthermore, youve got to look back he few callers sees people he wants these people wanting a peaceful life. We understand the mindset of these individuals. Beneficial. En i do not think the dollar signs that Dianne Feinstein was mentioning make sense. If so, it is complete bureaucracy run wild. You have to keep a place like gitmo as long as we are involved in a war on terror. Have to keep a place like gitmo fightingeep the people at bay. Us to find up we can through intelligence matters. Prisoner, you cannot allow a prisoner to starve themselves to death. That would be a violation. Host i think it is the way they go about it, patrick. Caller yeah. Host on the cost, the miami herald has gitmo by the numbers on their website. They say the house cost to , 800,000. Etainee based on the Defense Department figures put the cost at 2. 7 million per prisoner. The total number of resident at guantanamo on june 23 of this estimates was 5778. Staff, a total of 200 sit 2268. Imposedrison cap information blackout. Of the total, 300 of them are civilians and the majority of troops are from the u. S. Army. Nati prison hospital staff numbers, around 137. Navy prison hospital staff. Umbers, around 137 the white house announcing that six detainees have been. Ransferred to uruguay gary, democratic caller you are next. Caller hello. Forcefeeding is torture. That is why it is a human rights violation. As far as keeping prisoners after world war ii, german prisoners were kept in at least one place in wisconsin. They were arguably more dangerous than these terrorists. Terrorists, all those labels to describe a gang not beneficial. We should not give them the titles givet those to that group. Host ok. Are 1. 2 billion arabs in the world. 20,000 murderers running around together is a gang not an army. Host gordon in woodbridge, virginia. Republican. Caller i think we should keep it open to offset the cost down there we need to gather up people we have outsourced to other countries and