"We Don't Want Terrorists in American Prisons!" 355 Are Already There

Barack Obama's remark that some Guantanamo detainees might be transferred to American prisons has recently prompted a storm of protest.
 

 

Former Vice President Dick Cheney said that "to bring the worst terrorists inside the United States would be a cause for great danger and regret in the years to come."

Lawmakers from Kansas and Colorado said "Not In My Back Yard!"

But, as Fred Kaplan writes in Slate, "federal facilities on American soil currently house 216 international terrorists and 139 domesti