CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings November 19, 2013
Detainees at Guantanamo Bay. This provision makes sense for the security of this country and it makes sense for good intelligence collection. The ban on transfers to yemen is a very critical aspect of this amendment. The amendment bans any detainee transfers to yemen until december 31, 2014. Its been four years since the president posed a moratorium on transfers to yemen from guantanamo following the failed airplane bombing attempt on Christmas Day 2009 by umar farouk. At that time yemen was viewed as a hot spot for terrorists especially with the rise of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. Now ...
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