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WASHINGTON,
D.C.
– U.S.
Senator
Tim
Scott
(R-SC) today
announced
that
he
will
travel
to
Guantanamo
Bay,
Cuba
to
visit
detention
facility
in
the
coming
days
as
part
of
a congressional
delegation.
The
delegation,
which
will
include
Senators Kelly
Ayotte (R-NH)
and
Shelley Moore Capito
(R-WV),
will
review
detention
operations
at
Guantanamo as
well
as
meet
with
American
troops serving
at
the
facility.
As
part
of
the
visit,
Senator
Scott
will
specifically
look
at
the
differences
between
the
medium
security
brig
in
Charleston
that
the
Obama
Administration
recently
surveyed
versus
the
state
of
the
art
facility
that
the
American
government
has
constructed
in
Cuba.
“I
am
visiting
the
Guantanamo
Bay
detention
facility
in
the
coming
days
to
personally
to
better
understand
operations
at
the
facility
as
well
as
meet
with
our
brave
men
and
women
in
uniform
who
are
stationed
there.
During
my
visit,
I
want
to
see
firsthand
how
this
facility
helps
keep
our
homeland
safe,
inspect
quarters
and
see
where
the
military
commissions
are
held,”
said
Senator
Tim
Scott.
In
September,
Senator
Scott,
joined
by
five
fellow
members
of
the
South
Carolina
congressional
delegation,
wrote
to
President
Obama calling
for
the
immediate
halt
of
any
plan
to
relocate dangerous
international
terrorists
currently
held
in
the
Guantanamo
Bay
Detention
Camp
in
Cuba
to
any
domestic
sites
on
US
soil.
He
also
wrote
an
editorial
for Post
&
Courier and
an
op-ed
for
the Wall
Street
Journal,
which
he
co-authored
with
Senator
Pat
Roberts
(R-KS).
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