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On the recordJanuary 13, 2010
What we are looking at the President's idea of closing Gitmo is actually a fiction. Gitmo will not be closed. Yes, it may no longer be in its current physical location off of U.S. soil, but Gitmo will simply be packed up into boxes, a moving van is going to show up, and that moving van will be taken across water and across land. And, guess what? Gitmo is going to have a new address. It will fill out a change of address form for the worst of the worst terrorists that we know of that are enemy noncombatants against United States citizens, only now these enemy noncombatants, rather than being held safely and securely off U.S. soil, will be brought on to U.S. soil, where they will be on U.S. soil in Thompson, Illinois, in the heartland of this great country, whereby they will have opportunities potentially to do what we know terrorists have been doing for the past several years, and that is recruiting through the U.S.…
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Michele Bachmann
Minnesota

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Bachmann discusses the implications of closing Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

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