Detention center is ‘the perfect set for terrorists’,says Senate majority leader as Barack Obama seeks to close facility in 2016Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, or has vowed to fight Barack Obama’s plan to close the Guantánamo Bay detention center this year.“Guantánamo ought to stay open, he told reporters on Tuesday. “It’s the perfect set for terrorists. The president likes to kill terrorists – and I think that’s worthy, I’m all for killing terrorists but even more primary is to capture terrorists and interrogate them and try to find out what they know. The president doesn’t seem to be very interested in interrogation.”
He added: “I’m a supporter of Gitmo. I think it ought to stay open. I think we ought to add more terrorists to it and we ought to interrogate them there and whether it is concluded that they should be tried, or they should be tried by military commission ... I’m a big fan of using Gitmo the way it has been used and I think hopefully he will fail in his effort to totally remove all of these disagreeable guys from Guantánamo.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com