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Risks of moving people from GITMO to US

(1) Risk of death: if have contact with other prisoners they might be killed.
(2) Risk to townspeople: other terrorists might gather to break them out.
(3) Risk to prison: terrorist might try to organize other prisoners.
(4) Risk to system: should "unlawful combatants" be placed with criminals?
(5) Risk to public: A judge might release them into the U.S.
(6) Risk to mental health: Some say isolation in Super Max prison is akin to torture.
(7) Risk to others: Will the prisoners be able to communicate covertly with other terrorist on the outside - planning attacks against others.

Benefits:
(1) Fulfill Obama's campaign promise.
(2) Could make Europeans happy.
(3) Could make liberals happy.

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Pelosi Says CIA lied to her

Pelosi's logic is flawed. She says the CIA told her they had legal authority to use waterboarding but had not used it which is why she didn't do anything. Even if this was true, the CIA says it told her they had used waterboarding, this does not make sense. If the CIA had said they had legal authority to pull off fingernails and blind someone (obviously torture) would she not have done anything? IMO Pelosi is in trouble.