Litigation

Gitmo Closure Oversight to be Included in Homeland Security Bill

By Jason Barrett

House Homeland Security Members will include an oversight of President Obama’s intent to close Guantanamo Bay in their annual authorization bill.  The bill will authorize the Department of Homeland Security to continue to exist and determine its policy for the year.  House Republicans are eager to get an authorization bill completed that contains an investigation into the results of closing Guantanamo Bay.

“Will that have an impact as far as homeland security?” asked Ranking Member Peter King (R-Long Island). “That’s an added element.”  King is intending to organize a Congressional delegation to visit Guantanamo “to look at what’s there, what challenges presently exist, what challenges to the homeland potentially exist with those individuals being housed on the mainland.”

Full post as published by The Gavel on February 06, 2009 (boomark / email).