As you probably know, earlier this year President Obama ordered that the terrorist detainee facility at Guantanamo Bay be shut down by next January. The President declared the closing of Guantanamo to keep his campaign promise but he has yet to tell the American people where those who intend to do our country harm will be housed once Guantanamo is closed. Maybe the Administration won’t tell us the plan because they don’t have one or because they know that a recent Gallup/USA Today poll showed Americans, by a margin of three-to-one, oppose moving detainees from Guantanamo Bay to their home states. You can count me as one of those Americans.

But the Administration doesn’t seem worried about the need to disclose their intentions.

This from today’s Boston Globe…

“The Justice Department said that Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, one of 240 remaining detainees at Guantanamo, was transferred to New York today to stand trial for his alleged role in the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya that killed more than 200 people. Ghailani, who would be the first Guantanamo inmate to be tried in a US civilian court, is scheduled to appear today in US District Court in Manhattan.”

I signed on as a co-sponsor of the Keep Terrorists Out of America Act because I believe we need to put America’s security over politics. This bill would require that the Administration receive certification from state governors and legislatures before moving any Guantanamo Bay detainee into their states.

I’d be interested to hear what you have to say.