WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- A Michigan congressman says he's frustrated by the Pentagon's refusal to provide details on a possible move of U.S. terror detainees to a state prison.
Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., a vocal critic of a proposal to send some terrorism suspects from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to a facility in Standish, Mich., told Tuesday's Detroit News that U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has rebuffed his efforts to get more information on the subject, pending a formal decision by U.S. President Barack Obama on the Guantanamo detainees.
Gates reportedly wrote in a letter to Hoekstra that no details of the plans would be forthcoming until an interagency task force reaches a decision on closing the Guantanamo facility.
But Hoekstra told the News: "Hey, well you guys may have a decision, but the people in Standish and in Michigan may have a very different decision once they get more information.
"If they ... haven't dotted the i's and crossed the t's with the people in that location, then they very well open themselves up to trying to implement a decision that the local folks don't like and (are) going to say, 'No, we don't want it.' That'd be a bad place to be."
