Columbia (WLTX) -- Lt. Governor André Bauer plans to ask the state's Attorney General to take legal action to block the transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainees to Charleston.
Bauer's request is based on reports that White House officials are considering transferring terrorist prisoners to the Navy Brig in the Lowcountry to face military hearings.
"I was shocked to learn that the Obama administration was considering housing these terrorist in South Carolina," Bauer said in a written press release. "I find this option to be completely unacceptable - not only for the security risk that our citizens would face harboring murderers who have already taken American lives, but more so the possibility that these terrorists might be afforded the rights and protections of the very country they have tried to destroy if they are brought on to U.S. soil."
Bauer also plans to contact other ranking officials in the state and in Washington, D.C.
11/2/2009 5:08:40 PM
