The Barney Fife School of National Security
So John Murtha wants to invite the Gitmo prisoners to a “minimum security” prison in his district?
He says “They’re no more dangerous in my district than in Guantanamo,” and that there is “no reason not to put ‘em in prisons in the United States and handle them the way they would handle any other prisoners.”
Sure, Jack. Let’s just put ‘em in the county jail in the cell next to Otis the Drunk and have Barney Fife guard them.
Murtha’s outrageously casual attitude toward the Gitmo detainees results from the myth — pushed by defense lawyers — that most of the detainees were innocents mistakenly rounded up with the real bad guys. But there are extraordinarily dangerous individuals among the prisoners.
How do we know this? Besides information obtained in interrogations, we know it from President Obama, who stated in a recent interview with ABC:
It is more difficult than I think a lot of people realize , and we are going to get it done. But part of the challenge that you have is that you have a bunch of folks that have been detained, many of whom may be very dangerous, who have not been put on trial or have not gone through some adjudication.
And how about the overseer of the military tribunals, Susan Crawford? Much has been made about her recent charge to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward that the alleged “20th hijacker,” Mohammed al-Qahtani, had been tortured. But check out what she tells Woodward about the now global celebrity:
“There’s no doubt in my mind he would’ve been on one of those planes had he gained access to the country in August 2001,” Crawford said of Qahtani, who remains detained at Guantanamo. “He’s a muscle hijacker. . . . He’s a very dangerous man. What do you do with him now if you don’t charge him and try him? I would be hesitant to say, ‘Let him go.’ “
We’re talking about people who fly planes full of innocent men, women and children into buildings full of innocent full of innocent men, women and children. Not to mention blow up embassies, trains and buses. Not to mention spring their brethren from prisons all around the world. Michelle Malkin underscores the alarming proclivity of freed Gitmo detainees to return to their former way of life — killing — and underscores the other dangers inherent in integrating terrorist suspects into the civilian justice system.
So by all means, let’s just “put ‘em in prisons in the United States and handle them the way they would handle any other prisoners.”
Which brings us to the other minor problem: handling the Gitmo boys “the way they would handle any other prisoners” would set off a new worldwide hullabaloo that would make the fuss over the Cuban prison seem like a speed-dating session.
The reason the world wants Gitmo closed is a range of alleged human rights violations, including the very existence of the prison. You think for a moment that moving the detainees to U.S. prisons is going to stop the clamor? One word: HA!
Federal and state prisons have in recent years been the targets of, among others, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the Chinese government and, of course, the United Nations.
The military guards at Guantanamo Bay are part of highly disciplined and highly trained units with high morale. Nothing against prison guards — they do a thankless job. But their reputation is that they are, well, none of the above.
The first time a “screw” looks crossways at a former Gitmo detainee … deprives him of a privilege … accidentally insults his religion … oh, heck, it doesn’t matter. The prisons won’t be clean enough, modern enough, serve the right food, you name it.
The best prisons are awful places, places that suck the life out of a man. These are not vacation properties.
Besides the security risks inherent in handling some of the world’s most vicious and dangerous killers, can Murtha’s local minimum security prison handle the endless, boundless, constant, unceasing pounding of global criticism not only of inevitable breaching of procedures but also of perfectly appropriate, by-the-book conduct? I think not.
As Barney Fife once put it, “Well, I guess to sum it up, you could say, there’s three reasons why there’s so little crime in Mayberry. There’s Andy, and there’s me, and [patting gun] baby makes three.”
On second thought, maybe we SHOULD put ol’ Barney in charge of the Gitmo detainees.
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