Email from the Senator
Dear Friend,
Today(May 20) the Senate passed an amendment that I coauthored to eliminate funding President Obama requested for the Department of Justice to transfer GITMO terrorists to U.S. soil.
We absolutely should not be considering releasing terrorists into neighborhoods and communities in our country, but Attorney General Holder has stated that it’s possible the 17 Chinese Muslim Uighurs who have been held at Guantanamo could be freed in the United States. And the Director of National Intelligence, Admiral Dennis Blair, has stated that the government should give “some sort of assistance to them to start a new life.”
The widespread opinion being voiced in Louisiana and throughout America is to keep these detainees out of the United States. And I’m proud that today my colleagues joined me in stopping these funds to bring Guantanamo Bay terrorists into the United States.
Sincerely,
David Vitter
U.S. Senator
