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Defend America on Friday, December 18, 2009 7:47:11 AM
Dead Wrong Durbin
The law will not stop the courts from releasing foreign jihadists in the United States.
By Andrew C. McCarthy
Sen.
Dic- Durbin (R., Ill.) is the leading congressional advocate of the
plan to ship the terrorists being detained at Guantanamo Bay to a
prison in his (and the president’s) home state — i.e., the scheme to
redistribute federal taxpayer money to Illinois to buy a jail the state
barely uses and should never have built. As detailed in my
column
on Thursday, he is also a leading proponent of the purported imperative
to close Gitmo, based on the canard that its existence drives terrorist
recruitment, resulting in more terrorism.
The senator has written an
op-ed for
The Hill
arguing his case. He makes some extravagant claims designed to assure
Americans that the transfer of detainees from Cuba to a prison inside
our country will not result in their being released here. As he puts it:
No detainees
transferred from Guantanamo to the United States will be released
domestically. The president has signed two laws that would prohibit
such release. Both laws include identical provisions barring the
release of Guantanamo detainees on U.S. soil. In the extremely unlikely
event a detainee is found not guilty, he will not be released inside
the United States.
Senator Durbin does not tell us what laws he is talking about, but at least one of them appears to be the Homeland Security Appropriations Act of
2010, signed by President Obama on October 28. (I don’t know if he’s
talking about two provisions in that one statute or if there is some
other pertinent statute — but given that he says “both laws include
identical provisions,” we need find the relevant provision in only one
of them.) When a lawmaker posits a claim about a law but fails to quote
or cite the law so we can compare his claim to the text, it pays to be
wary.
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