FBI Director Worried About Release Of Gitmo Detainees… But Is Blanche Lincoln?

Tuesday, 19 May 2009 19:00

WASHINGTON ? FBI Director Robert Mueller told the U.S. House Judiciary Committee today that ?bringing Guantanamo Bay detainees to the United States would pose a number of possible risks, even if they were kept in maximum-security prisons,? according to the Associated Press.

?The concerns we have about individuals who may support terrorism being in the United States run from concerns about providing financing, radicalizing others,? Mueller said, as well as ?the potential for individuals undertaking attacks in the United States? All of those are relevant concerns.?

Despite these concerns voiced by leading national security officials and from her own Democrat colleagues, U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) has remained mum over whether or not she thinks detainees from Guantanamo Bay should be relocated to her home state of Arkansas or elsewhere in the United States.

?First her Democrat colleagues renounced relocating Gitmo detainees to their states, now the FBI Director has warned that bringing the prisoners to American soil could allow for ?the potential for individuals undertaking attacks in the United States.? Why hasn?t Senator Lincoln spoken out on this issue and explained whether or not she believes prisoners from Guantanamo Bay should be placed in Arkansas? This is a straight-forward question and the voters in Arkansas deserve to know where Senator Lincoln stands,? said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokeswoman Amber Wilkerson.