Statement by Senator Pryor On Transferring Guantanamo Bay Detainees to the United States

Senator Mark Pryor today made the following statement in response to a Wall Street Journal article citing the Obama Administration’s consideration of bringing Guantanamo Bay detainees to the United States:

We need to be doing everything possible to keep terrorists out of the United States. That’s why it’s outrageous President Obama would even consider circumventing the congressional ban on bringing these detainees to our shores.