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Senate Adds Block on Guantanamo Transfers To Funding Bill

By Jeralyn, Section Terror Trials
Posted on Tue Dec 14, 2010 at 07:36:05 PM EST
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The Senate today added a provision to its omnibus spending bill blocking the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to the U.S., including for trial, for 9 months.

Obama could try to find other money to transfer prisoners, but the new law would make that politically untenable.

The ACLU adds:

The House passed a nearly identical provision last week as part of a continuing resolution on government spending. The provision, Section 12 of the bill, is the first across-the-board transfer ban. Previous Guantánamo detainee transfer bans passed by Congress have always included an exception for transfers for prosecution purposes.

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