{"id":51423,"date":"2015-09-03T16:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/tim_scott_blasts_transferring_gitmo_terrorists_after_touring_brig\/"},"modified":"2015-09-03T16:00:54","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T16:00:54","slug":"tim_scott_blasts_transferring_gitmo_terrorists_after_touring_brig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51423","title":{"rendered":"(Local Paper) Senator Tim Scott blasts transferring Gitmo terrorists to SC idea after touring brig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After accompanying Pentagon officials on a tour Wednesday of the Navy brig near Charleston, U.S. Sen. Tim Scott said he remained opposed to plans to transfer terrorists now held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to a mainland U.S. prison.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe only solution is enemy combatants must stay in Guantanamo Bay,\u201d\u009d Scott, R-S.C., said during a news conference outside the main gate to the Navy base. \u201cOne thing that\u2019s completely clear, without any question, there is no compelling reason to close down Gitmo.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The Navy brig and the Army Detention Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., are among the sites being considered for holding terrorist detainees if President Barack Obama succeeds in shutting down the prison at Gitmo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20150902\/PC16\/150909826\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After accompanying Pentagon officials on a tour Wednesday of the Navy brig near Charleston, U.S. Sen. Tim Scott said he remained opposed to plans to transfer terrorists now held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to a mainland U.S. prison. \u201cThe<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51423\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,54,143,168,616,151,667,102,618,148,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-prisonprison-ministry","category-senate","category-terrorism","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}