By Edwin Mora,CNS News
These terrorists could soon be free in America
Conservative and liberal legal experts are divided over whether President Obama has the authority to keep a promise he made that after he closes the prison at Guantanamo Bay and brings it detainees the United States no dangerous prisoners will ever be released.
A conservative legal expert told CNSNews.com that it will be up to the courts–not Obama —to keep such individuals imprisoned after Obama has brought into the United States. But a liberal expert said the president will have the unilateral authority to keep individuals in custody regardless of what the courts decide.
The president made the pledge not to release any dangerous prisoners now at Guantanamo in a May 21 message at the National Archives.
“We are not going to release anyone if it would endanger our national security,nor will we release detainees within the United States who endanger the American people,” Obama said.
“Where demanded by justice and national security,we will seek to transfer some detainees to the same type of facilities in which we hold all manner of dangerous and violent criminals within our borders,” he added.
The president described the prisons most suitable for housing Gitmo detainees as “highly secure prisons that ensure the public safety.”