Mac Thornberry on Obama’s Gitmo Plan: He’s Not Serious on Working with Congress

THORNBERRY: "Not this plan. This is pretty thin stuff. You know, the president has talked for seven plus years about closing Guantanamo. We put into law last year a provision that says, put a plan where your mouth is. And what he comes back with is eight pages and three lines of vague generalities. We asked, where are you going to put these people? We have 13 possible locations. Where are you going to put new detainees? We have a menu of options. How much is it going to cost? It may be $300 to $500 initially but we don’t know for sure. There’s no specificity in this whatsoever which leads me to think that he is not serious. Certainly about working with Congress to accomplish it. And the rest of the story is, there’s not a better option. Certainly that the president has put forward on what we do with those folks in Guantanamo. I think they’re in trouble."