Senate to Mull Potential Endgame for Guantanamo (CRS Report for Congress)
| Release Date |
June 5, 2015 |
| Report Number |
SEN-GTMO |
| Authors |
Jennifer K. Elsea |
| Source Agency |
Congressional Research Service |
Summary:
The Senate is considering an overhaul of Guantanamo policy that would permit medical treatment of detainees in the United States but would otherwise tighten transfer restrictions, to be relaxed once again only after the President submits, and Congress approves, a plan to close Guantanamo. Like the House-passed version of the FY 2016 National Defense Authorization Act (2016 NDAA, discussed in a previous Sidebar post), the version reported favorably by the Senate Armed Services Committee would essentially reinstate the harsher Guantanamo transfer restrictions that applied prior to the 2014 NDAA under which no detainees were transferred except by court order. (See this CRS report for a description of previously applicable provisions.) The bill would also continue the ban on transferring detainees into the United States, but with a new exception that would, for the first time since that ban began in 2010, permit transfer into the United States for medical treatment.
