Kit Bond: Detainees would attract radicals to their location if housed in US
California’s Sen. Dianne Feinstein says she would be okay with transferring Guantanamo Bay detainees to facilities in California, so long as it’s a maximum security prison that has been set up to accommodate them.
In an interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace, the senior senator from California said: “I’m one who strongly believes that Guantanamo should be closed. And I believe it can be done. I’m also one that’s somewhat familiar with prison structure in the United States, and I know that there are maximum security prisons from which no one escapes … which are isolated from neighborhoods, and no one is going to put these people in anyone’s neighborhood.”
“So you’re okay with these detainees going to California?” Wallace asked.
“Yes,” Feinstein replied. “In a maximum security prison — I don’t worry about it, provided the prison is set up to accommodate it and I believe we have facilities that are.”
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