09 May 2014

Lawmakers want new 'high-value detainee complex' at Guantanamo | RallyPoint.com

Military News - Lawmakers want new 'high-value detainee complex' at Guantanamo

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By Carol Rosenberg
Copyright: Miami Herald

MIAMI — Some members of Congress want to build a new secret prison for the alleged 9/11 mastermind and other former CIA captives at Guantanamo, a project once proposed by the U.S. Southern Command but then dropped because of lack of Obama administration support.

Republicans at the House Armed Services Committee inserted $69 million for the new “high-value detainee complex” in its spending bill Wednesday night that earmarked a total of $93 million for new construction at the prison camps in Cuba.

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