In listening to President Obama and most Democrats in Congress, one might think that holding detainees at Guantanamo Bay is what's bankrupting America. read more
The base at Guantanamo Bay is about 10 miles by 10 miles wide and is completely surrounded by a communist country with which the US has no formal ties. The base gets its water from a desalination plant that is very expensive and it gets its electricity from its own power plant. read more
In listening to President Obama and most Democrats in Congress, one might think that holding detainees at Guantanamo Bay is what’s bankrupting America. Last month, the president told Candy Crowley on CNN’s State of the Union that “it is wildly expensive. read more
Buried inside were the numbers for Guantanamo—and they are horrifying. It costs $78,000 a year to hold a prisoner in a maximum-security facility, according to the Government Accountability Office; at Guantanamo, that number is an almost incomprehensible $2,768,902. In other words, the cost of chest thumping is about $2,690,000 per detainee. read more