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Battle Over Gitmo Continues

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    Sen. Jim Inhofe, (R-Okla.), on the need to continue use of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

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What Osama bin Laden have been killed and founding kill without gitmo the answer seems to be obvious to everyone except our president.

Joining me now is a tireless critic of Obama's plan to shut down the detention facility.

Republican senator Jim -- com.

Welcome sir thank you very much an -- -- you just came back from get knowledge congressional trip there.

Telus can you give us a sense of the conditions and the morale vote.

Yeah -- you -- just like it has been Eric and I've talked to you before even from over there.

My mission is to -- -- really to try to make sure.

That we start using that place again a lot of people know that we won the battle and that Obama is not able to.

To close it.

So we're that's over that's history that we know we're gonna be if you don't know what they don't know is that he is not allowed -- Combatant.

-- anyone who has been captured into gitmo in the year to -- years he's been president.

So that's the nation now I took six people with me.

Eric who had never been to -- before and when you do that they think why in the world was there ever any debate on this.

So this legislation we have and appreciate your letting the at least mention it because it's -- -- you know that is that if we have a high value detainees.

That we know that we get -- irrigation that we need to open that after that they come to get them.

Right now.

If they are captured I don't care what country it is it it's Iraq Afghanistan.

-- They are incarcerated.

In the country where their car.

And in a lot of these countries -- revolving doors.

On the last there about a 150 of the 600 that were released yet know.

Eric who are back in the battle trying to kill Americans did so anyway we need to use that great resource.

Comedy videos you have like this really pay 4000 dollars a year -- Castro has passed last and checked it right bargain right right.

But -- the -- he -- is any question in your mind certainly not my -- -- you're there you're at -- is there any question in your in your mind that.

The Intel gleaned from enhanced interrogation of say.

You know Khalid Sheikh Mohamed and others that gitmo that some of that information led to the capture and kill Osama bin Laden.

Yeah we know that this of the information that came from.

I -- I wouldn't really single him out even though I believe that but others who are close to them -- I would say the big core of the Big Five.

Absolutely so that information was responsible for now that their ears in the accident.

That being the case we have a president who's been trying to do as an obsession to shut it down.

If we hadn't gotten that information.

You know.

Osama bin Laden would be alive today right -- we need to use that -- Sir we need I want -- our audience to hear you say the US senator telling us.

Gitmo important to the intelligence.

To capture some of that you know that the really bad guys around the world guests are now.

Yes but it's more importantly it's imperative not -- to -- That we have that place you know we have military we have the expeditionary legal.

Who worked there.

We have we carry on military tribunals.

And when the president was trying to say no we can do that to our civil court system in this country that's what we seized upon to make sure the American people -- new.

That that is the alternative to closing -- All right senator there's no place else in the world like it.

Senator before I lose you I I lost a lot of friends in the World Trade Center worked in the buildings on both occasions of of the bombings there.

I for one would like to -- to kill shot of Osama bin Laden you have sir would you do us a favor do me a favor in my audience in favor -- we saw.

You know what I saw and I was a -- and -- the first week I had asked and had a nice and I wanna see that -- you're making a decision as to whether -- not film people.

Yeah we had to kill shot the -- killed -- shots one going through the night coming out the opposite here.

Up close shots of the -- showing exactly the cavity showing the insides of the -- that we're hanging out over the the the -- Then of course they can't show.

Now the cash out which soon -- when they were cleaning him up and getting ready for burial then of course the very so that's usually -- All right we had -- sixteen very dear friends of mine who passed away on 9/11.

Otherwise -- neutral and I was at the memorial services remember they want funerals because their bodies were never recovered.

Synergy James -- thank you very much for your time thank you sir thank you.

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