++The Obama Administration will unveil its plan to close Guantanamo Next week. Already GOP Senators are in an uproar. The Plan will make a number of suggestions about SuperMax facilities to hold the remaining prisoners.
++This is being cast as President Obama making good his campaign promise from the 2008 election. But there is a deeper need for this because Gitmo is a symbol to the rest of the world of inhumane practices by the United States.
++My choice of location is the Navy Brig at St.Charleston, South Carolina. But the administration leans to the Supermax facility in Florence,Colorado.
++Cory Gardner, the GOP Senator from Colorado, is making the case his citizens would be at risk. He argues that the prisoners would be passing through urban areas to get to the facility, which is called "The Alcatraz" in the Rockies. What and they are going to escape?
++There are 112 detainees left and 53 are eligible for transfer to other countries.
++So 59 will be held indefinitely without trial. This is already a major civil liberties issue.
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