If President Barack Obama is really intent on closing down Guantanamo Bay and overcoming fierce congressional opposition to housing these detainees on U.S. soil, he should repeat three simple words at every opportunity:
They’re already here.
Somehow, this important fact has been lost amid the shrieking both Democratic and Republican lawmakers have been doing over Obama’s proposal to move Guantánamo’s terrorist suspects to federal maximum-security prisons.
According to the Justice Department, 216 international terrorists are currently being held in federal prisons, as well as 139 domestic terrorists.
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