Bauer calls for immediate reaction at Charleston Navy brig

Lt. Governor André Bauer said Monday that he will ask Attorney General Henry McMaster to take immediate legal action to block the transfer of terrorist detainees from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility to the Navy brig in Charleston.

Bauer’s request is based on reports that officials at the White House are considering transferring prisoners to the Lowcountry facility to face military hearings. 

“I was shocked to learn that the Obama administration was considering housing these terrorists in South Carolina,” Bauer said.  “I find this option to be completely unacceptable – not only for the security risk that our citizens would face harboring murderers who have already taken American lives, but more so the possibility that these terrorists might be afforded the rights and protections of the very country they have tried to destroy if they are brought onto U.S. soil.”

Lt. Governor Bauer also plans to contact other ranking officials both here in South Carolina and in Washington D.C. to send a clear unified message to the President – the people of the great state of South Carolina do not want these terrorists in our backyard.