Guantanamo Barrage

Sam Brownback (R-KS): “We cannot afford to make snap decisions about detainee policy, and the American people should be able to judge any policy changes for themselves. This legislation would require an open and comprehensive review of the factors related to moving the Guantanamo detainees.”

Representative John Murtha (D-PA): “Sure, I'd take them. They're no more dangerous in my district than in Guantanamo. There's no reason not to put them in prisons in the United States and handle them the way they would handle any other prisoners.”

Former Commander Kirk Lippold: “There is no need to suspend [the military tribunals]. There is no reason why [Obama] can't conduct a concurrent review at the same time that the military commission process is moving forward to render justice for the terrorists that have murdered thousands of people. It demeans their deaths because we seem to be more concerned with the rights of detainees than we are with the justice that is being denied to my sailors that were killed.”

Attorney David Rivkin: “You either have to detain them under the military justice/laws of war paradigm, you need to decide how you're going to prosecute the rest. This is about hundreds and thousands of people the United States is likely to capture in future wars .. ongoing wars frankly against Al Qaeda and Taliban. You cannot fight a war without retaining this vital legal architecture. They have to keep this architecture, they can not just keep or resort to a criminal justice model.”

Peter Gadiel: “To me it's beyond comprehension that they would take the side of the terrorists. Many of these people have been released and been right back killing, right back at their terrorist work again.”