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CQ TODAY MIDDAY UPDATE
Jan. 22, 2009 – 1:33 p.m.

Rep. Young: Send Detainees to Pelosi’s District

A senior House Republican has suggested a secure location for the detainees now held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba — Speaker Nancy Pelosi ’s district in San Francisco.

“Alcatraz would be a good place to put these people,’’ said Rep. C.W. Bill Young of Florida, ranking Republican on the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee.

“There’s a lot of discomfort about the idea of bringing the detainees in to the United States. That’s why I’ve suggested Alcatraz,” said Young, referring to the now abandoned, infamous prison island in San Francisco Bay.

Young said he had not discussed the idea with Pelosi, D-Calif., but he did suggest it to Gregory Craig, President’s Obama’s lawyer, during a briefing Craig gave to senior House Republicans Wednesday concerning Obama’s plans for shutting down the detainee center at the U.S. military facility in Cuba.

Obama on Thursday issued an executive order calling for a shutdown of Gitmo within a year.

Alcatraz Island, nicknamed “the rock,” served as the location of a military prison until it was converted to a federal prison in the 1930s. It was shut down in the 1963, but reopened as a national recreation area and tourist attraction in 1972.

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  1. Mark January 22, 2009 7:07 PM
    I don't think it's such a bad idea. Of course the facilities would have to be updated.
  2. John Mason January 23, 2009 8:59 AM
    And if we have any problems, we can send in a team of Navy SEALs lead by Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage.
  3. Vanbren5 January 25, 2009 1:59 PM
    I suggest CW Young along with the many other bootlicking Bushies be sent to Alcatraz. They're the ones responsible for the whole shameful fiasco.
  4. Nancy January 26, 2009 11:54 AM
    What "shameful fiasco" would you be talking about Vanbren? Keeping your behind safe since 9-11? Maybe you would like the terrorists in your back yard? If Mr. Obama wants to close GITMO let's put the terrorists in his back yard. Seriously sending them to Alcatraz Island would be a good place for them.
  5. Mike January 26, 2009 6:54 PM
    Alcatraz would be fine, as long as the Attorney General Gonzalez gets to keep them company. He, along with the attorney's Mr. Bush used to justify his dismantaling of America's record as a leader for justice and access to a trail.
  6. Tom January 27, 2009 2:13 PM
    Obviously Nancy, you have zero respect for the rule of law, and believe that we can summarily judge between innocent and guilty. Perhaps YOU should go and live in a non-democratic country: North Korea do ya?

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