REPORT: Trump planning to send ISIS to Gitmo with new executive order

This is interesting. There’s a draft executive order circulating around the White House that basically advises the Pentagon to send ISIS detainees to Gitmo when they are captured on the battlefield. It also suggests that Trump wants begin again the Bush 43 policy of gathering intelligence from detainees rather than just killing them on the battlefield:

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Here’s more from the NY Times:

The Trump White House is nearing completion of an order that would direct the Pentagon to bring future Islamic State detainees to the Guantánamo Bay prison, despite warnings from national security officials and legal scholars that doing so risks undermining the effort to combat the group, according to administration officials and a draft executive order obtained by The New York Times.

White House officials have detailed their thinking about a new detainee policy in an evolving series of drafts of an executive order being circulated among national security officials for comment. While previous versions have shown that the draft has undergone many changes – including dropping language about reviving C.I.A. prisons – the plan to add Islamic State detainees to the Guantánamo population has remained constant.

The latest version of the draft, which circulated this week, would direct Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to use Guantánamo to detain suspected members of “Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and associated forces, including individuals and networks associated with the Islamic State.”

Here’s the draft executive order:

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I think it’s absolutely necessary to not only detain ISIS terrorists in Gitmo, but also to gather intelligence from them via interrogation on future attacks that are being planned.

I hope Trump finishes and signs this executive order and does it soon.


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