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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s top lawyer said Friday that the Obama administration has not abandoned the possibility of transferring some prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay detention center to a prison in the United States despite congressional concerns.
Defense Department general counsel Jeh Charles Johnson told the House Armed Services Committee that some terrorism suspects might be transferred to the U.S. for prosecution and others sent to a facility inside the U.S. for long-term incarceration.
Johnson said no prisoners would be released from custody inside the country.
