{"id":2060,"date":"2011-06-27T18:56:55","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T01:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=2060"},"modified":"2011-06-27T18:56:55","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T01:56:55","slug":"president-obama-senator-mcconnell-float-balloon-for-expanded-use-of-illegal-torture-prison-at-guantanamo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=2060","title":{"rendered":"President Obama, Senator McConnell float balloon for expanded use of illegal torture prison at Guantanamo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sending New Inmates to Guant\u00e1namo a Step in the Wrong Direction<br \/>\nFor Immediate Release: June 14, 2011<\/p>\n<p>Washington, D.C.\u2014Today, Senator Mitch McConnell (KY), the top-ranking republican in the U.S. Senate, argued that two Iraqis facing terrorism-related charges in Kentucky should be transferred to the prison at Guant\u00e1namo Bay. Senator McConnell stated that Kentucky residents do not want 30-year-old Waad Ramadan Alwan and 23-year-old Mohanad Shareef Hammadi treated like \u201ccommon criminals in their own backyards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSending new terrorism suspects to Guant\u00e1namo to languish in a failed system would be a step in the wrong direction. Criminals can and should be prosecuted in civilian courts,\u201d said Human Rights First\u2019s C. Dixon Osburn.<\/p>\n<p>To date, there have been 400 convictions of persons on terror related charges in federal courts versus only six convictions in tribunals. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanrightsfirst.org\/2011\/06\/14\/sending-new-inmates-to-guantanamo-a-step-in-the-wrong-direction\/\"> &#8230;source<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D2060&amp;text=President+Obama%2C+Senator+McConnell+float+balloon+for+expanded+use+of+illegal+torture+prison+at+Guantanamo&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sending New Inmates to Guant\u00e1namo a Step in the Wrong Direction For Immediate Release: June 14, 2011 Washington, D.C.\u2014Today, Senator Mitch McConnell (KY), the top-ranking republican in the U.S. Senate, argued that two Iraqis facing terrorism-related charges in Kentucky should be transferred to the prison at Guant\u00e1namo Bay. Senator McConnell stated that Kentucky residents do <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=2060#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[1371],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}