What sequester? Guantanamo Bay military prison will get $195.7 million in renovations

[tinydancer]

It's the Gong Show You can't make this shit up. No kids can tour the White House BUT GITMO gets upgrades.

Four years after Obama promised to close it, Guantanamo Bay military prison will get $195.7 million in renovations and new construction

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President Barack Obama famously promised in early 2009 to close the US military's detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba within 12 months. But new Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is instead considering a proposal from his top commanders to spend $195.7 million renovating it and erecting a new prison building.

The new construction would include $49 to house high-value targets like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind behind the 9/11 terror attacks, whose initial detention and interrogation was handled by the Central Intelligence Agency.

The New York Times reported that it would likely replace Camp 7, the oft-rumored but never acknowledged installation for those 'special' detainees.

General John F. Kelly, who leads the United States military's Southern Command, testified in a congressional hearing Wednesday that with no end to the prison's operation in sight, repairs and upgrades are needed.

Retired Air Force Col. Morris Davis, a former chief prosecutor at the Guantanamo Bay base, said in a separate interview with Russia Today that the US military spends $120 million annually 'just on the recurring costs of keeping the detainees there.'


Four years after Obama promised to close it, Guantanamo Bay military prison will get 195 million dollars in renovations and new construction | Mail Online

 

[Borillar]

Guess right wingers want to keep it open so they can torture people. Should just close it down and put the inmates in isolation in a supermax prison.

 

[bucs90]

RW'ers, you ok with all this new government spending? You blasted Obama for saying he'd close Gitmo. Well, he wasnt able to, and now, he's spending hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade it. How ya feel?

 

[nitroz]

Thank you members of the Republican party, Right Wingers, and GOP.

Because of you keeping this open, you are costing us hundreds of millions.
So the next time you bitch about spending, remember to go fuck yourselves.

 

[Avorysuds]

Guess right wingers want to keep it open so they can torture people. Should just close it down and put the inmates in isolation in a supermax prison.

Thanks Obama for more torture!!! Progressives like Borillar love you Obama for more wars and more torture!!

 

[Avorysuds]

RW'ers, you ok with all this new government spending? You blasted Obama for saying he'd close Gitmo. Well, he wasnt able to, and now, he's spending hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade it. How ya feel?

You mean he didn't even try!

Man, the only thing you progressives make Obama out to be good at is getting nothing done. I see why you voted for him 2x!

Thank goodness the economy is taking off, too bad you have to credit Republicans with this awesome economy being Obama can't get anything done!

 

[tjvh]

Go Obama, your voting base doesn't care if you spend almost two hundred million on a base you promised them you were going to close. Nothing to see here...

 

[California Girl]

It appears that - from the responses of our left wing lunatic fringe - they would prefer to see this perfectly rational thread moved to the badlands.

I wonder if the mods are gullible enough to fall for their manipulation of the board? I look forward to the outcome.

*Packs bag and rehearses 'ban dance' moves.*

 

[Avorysuds]

Thank you members of the Republican party, Right Wingers, and GOP.

Because of you keeping this open, you are costing us hundreds of millions.
So the next time you bitch about spending, remember to go fuck yourselves.

And here I thought Obama was President!


Whew!!!! Obama got out of another promise! More wars and more spending, a shit economy and Guantanamo is still open! Progressives cheer in the streets!