leavenworth has kansas officials in an uproar. >> transferring terror suspects here places a bull's-eye on this community. >> this is a bad idea. on an artificial, hurry-up timeline. >> reporter: administration officials say ft. leavenworth and the maximum security prison in standish, michigan, are being considered as possible multi-purpose destinations for detainees that could contain courtrooms for both federal criminal trials and military commissions, and house, in one place, detainees now being sorted into three groups. those being held for trial, those being indefinitely detained, and those cleared for release but without a country to take them. in standish, michigan, where the unemployment rate stands at 24%, the maximum security prison is slated for closure. some local officials support using it as a detainee facility to preserve jobs. but michigan congressman pete hoekstra disagrees, saying turning michigan into a

what is the problem with moving gitmo detainees to leavenworth given that leavenworth, kansas, already holds some of the worst criminals in the united states? >> not really the worst criminals, it's a military prison. but in terms of the military prison, we have about 430 detainees or people serving time who are on the other side of the military court of justice. but to mix 100 of the most dangerous terrorists in the world with that population, number one, is against the law. you can't do it. >> well, first of all, i don't think anybody is talking about mixing. my understanding, correct me if i'm wrong, is this would be essentially a separate facility. it might be connected. there might be an adjacent facility but saying the populations would be mixed is different. >> well, you can't have in the same facility or even an adjacent facility regular military prisoners with these detainees, and you're going to have about 100 of them that are the most serious in the world, and why on earth would you want to put terrorists like that at ft. leavenworth, which is the intellectual center of the

i was a little kid in fourth grade at fort leavenworth kansas just before i went over there and saw captain chuck yeager flying the secret shooting star at an air show and i knew what i wanted to do and i got there -- current chief of naval operations and a slew of other people and when things got rough in hanoi my mind what flash back to those days where i was learning by military transit stuff from the brits and we had the privilege that will sergeants that told everything were the naval academy where even if you couldn't do something you did it any way. if you are told to do something you did it, period. i am sitting here next to tim.

leavenworth kansas or at a michigan prison that is about to shut down. the revelation comes a day after a yemeni detainee apparently committed suicide inside the psychiatric ward at guantanamo bay. >>> a massachusetts woman who posted her son's baby pictures on her family's blog got a surprising lesson in why that's not such a good idea. and you may think twice about posting your kids' pictures online after you see this report from sean kelly from affiliate wcbb. >> reporter: 7-month-old jacob brennan was busy tasting toys when his mother, jenny, got a suspicious e-mail. >> out of the blue, some girl e-mailed us and said i think you should know that someone is using jake's picture in an adoption scam. >> reporter: it sounded hard to believe, brennan did some investigating and found this ad on craig list about a cute baby boy available for adoption, but no picture, so brennan e-mailed the listed yahoo! address and got this in her inbox. >> the picture was a picture of

the mayor of leavenworth was there, opposed to this move. have voted in this body virtually unanimously, as close to unanimous a vote that you have to work with local officials before the gitmo detainees can be moved anywhere in the united states. well, the local officials are uniformly opposed to this, and we wake up, and it is in the morning papers and no one has been consulted about it. now, i want to say that the detainees in my estimation deserve appropriate humane treatment. they deserve to be treated under our international obstacle gages, and if they are not -- obligations, and if they are not getting that, it needs to be changed, and it needs to be changed at guantanamo bay. i would hope we would have international investigations tell us what is not being met that we are required to do that is not being done. i have not seen any credible international reports that say that there are things that we are not doing that we should do at guantanamo bay. there is a gray category that's involved here. we have enemy combatants that don't rep

leavenworth, the fort at leavenworth, i talk to my colleagues -- i hope they will look at the factualting. the fort leavenworth is one of the small of the army bases we have around the world, eight square miles. it abouts and part of an urban area of kansas city. it has on its borders, a river, and a train that goes through every 25 minutes. it is not the secure facility that you would need for the detainees. we don't have any setbacks lick a number of other facilities and it has one of the highest population densities per square mile or-square-foot of any military base because it houses the command and general staff college of the military. if i could point out that facility to my colleagues, and i hope some of them come and attend and address the command and general staff college on a regular basis we get students from around the world at that facility. journal ogenerally 90 companies have students at -- 90 countries have students at the college. of the 90 countries that sendsts for their army training half will become general flag officers, and a number of them will become leaders,

leavenworth makes no sense for a number of reasons.artha: give me a couple of them. >> it is a war college. the intellectual center of the military. not only do we trained soldiers there, but soldiers around the world. it is a total disregard for the mission of that installation. secondly, it is not a maximum security facility. it would cost millions to upgrade the facility. people have this image of fort leavenworth as a maximum facility, but that is not the case. we are accustomed to housing military prisoners, so that means those prisoners would have to be moved somewhere. the administration has given this no thought. of course, congress has spoken, and we know about this because we read it in the press. martha: leaving guantanamo open? is that what you would suggest? >> it may be a different story in michigan, but my belief is those prisoners belong in guantanamo bay. maybe there is something that need to be done with regard to their ability to make decisions about these people's future, but not in the u.s. martha: everybody wants

for the rest of his life and i wish they could bury him under leavenworth.re's just not enough they can do to this

how could this guy -- he spent time in leavenworth for rape. could his house not be checked, be able to have a concealed backyard to harbor jaycee and these kids? >> that's a great question. earlier today i was seeing the fbi's evidence response team from the aerial shots we were looking at. i saw a tarp up. having been a member of the fbi's er team myself, i said there's something else outside the house. now we hear this. you look at the house, mike. we're not talking about a rural area. it's not that big of a house. you know, if i'm parole officer. from now on if they make visitations they're going to say, let me look around a little more. there was a little slit in a tarp that went back to a series of sheds. they've never been to a doctor. the kids have never been to school. it's amazing to me. >> jaycee, herself, has lived in a backyard for 18 years. i'm going to go to dan simon. covering this for our sister network cnn. anything to add as we listen to the press conference? you're in antioch outside the home there. >> reporter: i can tell y

as richard mentioned, i am out at fort leavenworth. our office is called for military studies office. in 1985, we were founded as the soviet army studies office and as the world changed, we changed as well. however, for those of you that are familiar with the soviet army studies office and some of the officers in the military, a lot of those faces still remain out there. our director is now tom wilhelm. mr. less brown is still there. -- mr. les brown is still there. we have mr. scott anderson looking closely at chinese hackers. roberts looks at your -- rob curtis looks at europe. some things have not change of fort leavenworth. we still have a lot of prisons. you will notice you were near fort leavenworth if you go to the kansas city airport and you see a t-shirt that says leavenworth penitentiary, a gated community. what i would like to discuss today are some of the consequences of the georgian/russian conflict. i am also prepared, if anybody has questions about chinese information warfare techniques, tactics, whatever, i will answer

leavenworth, kansas, or a michigan prison that is about to shut down. the revelation comes a day after a yemeni detainees apparently committed suicide inside the psychiatric ward at guantanamo bay. >>> six people were wounded in a shooting outside a chicago church where a gang member's funeral was being held. there was a stampede when people inside the church heard that shots were being fired. precautions were taken so the shooter couldn't get inside. >> they lock the doors for about two or three minutes and then opened them back up. we found four bodies lying on the ground. >> it was so brazen. you know, violence in schools and churches, supposed to be a safe haven f that's violated, we're really in trouble. >> witnesses say the shooter ran off. no one has been arrested. police believe the shootings are gang related. >>> a massachusetts woman who posted her son's baby pictures on her family's blog got a surprising lesson in why that's not such a good idea. and you may think twice about posting your kids' pictures online after you see this report from s

leavenworth, kansas.tor brownback of kansas anticipates bipartisan opposition. >> the leadership in the congress about what the leader options are, because it may have been a unanimous vote of the united states senate not to move the detainees unless you work with the local community. bret: we have new details tonight on what the u.s. commander in afghanistan will ask for later this month when he delivers his status report to the defense secretary. national security correspondent jennifer griffin reports it comes during a very difficult period for allied forces fighting the taliban. >> its was the deadliest month in afghanistan for u.s. troops since the start of the war. 74 nato troops killed in july. 43 of them were americans. all eyes now are on general stan mccrystal, who was given 60 days to review the situation on the ground in afghanistan after taking over as the top u.s. commander there. defense secretary robert gates and admiral mike mullen asked mcchrystal to meet them for a sec ket face to face

he spent two years in leavenworth.rved it but you felt like he was making a genuine attempt as reform and remoors. and, yeah, i agree. having tony d dudunge who lost son and liked in the nfl. the nfl has amazing public relations apparatus. he had to go through all of this or he would have never gotten another contract. >> talk about two countries back in the headlines this week. wednesday, the deadliest day in baghdad since u.s. troops withdrew in june. 100 people killed in attacks there. in afghanistan, voters were at the polls to pick the next president. it's the first afghan-led vote in more than 30 years. at the same time, a new abc news/"washington post" poll finds the war dropping for -- support dropping for war in afghanistan. 51% think the war is not worth fighting for. is this because the media aren't covering that war? >> i think the media reflecting the general interest of americans which shifted to other issues like the economy and so on, and the fact they can't afford the bureaus they used to have other th

. >>> tonight, there's word the obama administration is looking at for the leavenworth kansas and a prison northeast michigan as possible sites to move suspected taliban fitders now being held at guantanamo bay. the white house says these are options but no decisions have been made. the president has ordered guantanamo closed by january. president obama's efforts to revive the economy takes center stage this week when he returns to elk hart, indiana, a community pounded by the recession. the president will no doubt highlight new economic indicators that show the recession might be easing. there are new questions tonight about whether new taxes could be in store. here's john cochran. >> reporter: with encouraging economic news this week, everyone wondered if the worst is behind us. >> is it over? >> not quite, but we're getting very close. >> we still have a ways to go before we hit bottom and it's going to be a long hard shlog getting out of this. >> reporter: that might surprise some. manufacturing activity jumped up this past week. the drop in economic growth slowed dramatically and new

leavenworth, an senator sessions is angry with a water dispute with the army corps of engineers. gates is said to be disappointed wit w thefirmatifis for at least a month while senators now go on say case. some more outbreak of h1n1 flu and the gay community may be changing its thinking about president obama. chris: president obama is taking some hits from one of his core support groups. national correspondent steve centanni reports the gay community is expressing disillusionment with a lead ter once considered a hero. >> he rode to the white house on a wave of hope but did president obama deliver? the longest publiced gay news magazine "the advocate" says no, at least not yet. on the campaign trail and on election night, mr. obama promised a place at the table for gays and less beans. >> hispanic, asian, disabled and not disables, gays, lesbians. >> the gays got their first blow when the president chose pastor rick warren to speak at inauguration, who is against gay marriage. then the president's first six months came and went without any action important to gays and lesbians. d

leavenworth, kansas.he prison would have a courtroom apparently for detainees' trials. president obama, remember, ordered guantanamo closed by january 22nd of 2010. >>> israeli police are looking for a masked gunman who witnesses say killed two people at a gay youth center over the weekend. one of the victims was laid to rest yesterday. prime minister benjamin netanyahu has condemned the crime saying the killer will face the most severe punishment possible. police sai said they were treating saturday night's shooting as a hate crime, but today they're saying they're looking at a range of possible motives including whether it was a revenge killing over a love affair gone wrong. 11 other people were wounded in that attack. the killings have sparked safety concerns within tel aviv gay, lease beeian, transsexual, and transgender community. >>> do you believe this video? that's what happens when a building demolition goes wrong. in this case it was an old factory building in turkey. you saw it, it didn't colla

we got to fort leavenworth, kan., and they had a quota, and the quota was filled. they said the next best thing you can do is to go to fort riley, kan., and they will accept you. so we went to fort riley, kansas. they welcomed us with open arms, so we were glad. you got three meals a day and free clothes. he made $21 a month, so nothing could be better. they put me in the horse cavalry. they had more horses and mules up for raleigh than they did people. i remain at fort riley until 1943. though war started december 2, 1941, and they were downsizing a horse cavalry, so they sent to the infantry. we shipped out and went to italy, and i remained in italy until the war ended in 1945. >> my career started, and i am not sure whether as patriotism or what it was, but i enlisted in the enlisted reserve corps. what that did was get me out of the infantry. it also meant that i would be in the united states army air corps when i did enter service, and that is exactly what happened. >> in the spring of 1943, i was about to graduate from high school here in abilene. it was the

hearing that contenders include a state prison in michigan and the military prison at fourth fort leavenworthn texas. >> i would say that directly to president obama. mr. president, listen to the american people, don't move the detainees to kansas. it's working where we have them now. shepard: of course, kansas is just one of the states reportedly under consideration. we are told no one has yet made any final decisions. there is also word that gitmo detainees could get criminal trials on the east coast. white house insiders say the attorney general eric holder is considering several districts in virginia and washington. the districts said to be in the running have experience in high terrorism cases and each has high security facilities capable of holding dangerous inmates. it would be a major departure from the pentagon's original plan of holding guantanamo bay related trials only in america's heartland. well, the iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad is one step closer to his second term in office. the country's supreme leader, the ayatollah al khomeini fully backing ahmadinejad there has be

says leavenworth penitentiary, a gated community. [laughter] you know you're in the area. well, what i would like to discuss today is some of the consequences, aually, of the georgian/russian conflict of august 2008 from an information technology and, perhaps, cognitive point of view. i'm also prepared if anybody has questions about chinese information warfare techniques, tactics, whatever to answer those questions as well. interestingly enough, there seems to be very little confrontation between the russians and the chinese in the information area with cyber attacks. we see that mostly from china. those alleged attacks you read about all the te in theaper, they've hitbout every other country, it seems, except russia significantly. so there may be a reason there. i'm actually going to divide this talk about the consequences into three parts, and the first part i'm going to kind of give you a definition from a russian perspective of information warfare. i'll tell you what i see as the three levels of information warfare theory and pra

. >> leavenworth. >> he couldn't drop the soap. he had to watch his back. he had a lot of stuff to be concerned about. now he's a free man. i don't think he's concerned about it. i think he wants to stay out of trouble. >> thanks for the calls as well. here's a story for you. a convenience store robber, well, the husband sees what's going on there. he's going to tackle the guy. it's about a ten-minute fight. we'll let you know how it all played out and take your calls in a little bit. we'll call him a hero. let's get to our heros of the week, new york merchandise chemistry teacher jude nambuki. >> i was coming from college at night and i see this computer thrown out. and i found everything was perfect. my name is jude and i refurbish the computers and send them to kenya. the children in kenya have very few resources. ♪ >>> well a new program is helping african-american men beat some pretty serious odds. it started with a surgeon who saw the same shootings and stabbing victims again and again in the trauma center. richelle carey has that story in our weekly

standpoint and from a legal standpoint by moving either these people to standish, michigan or fort leavenworth: the governor is a democrat. do you know what her position is on taking these prisoners at the facility in standish? >> she had severe reservations about this action taking place. i think she wants more for mission. we should have state officials have the opportunity to go visit gitmo and declassify information about who these people are, what they've done. more portly, what we've learned about their capital is as we have held them in confinement. -- more importantly, what we've learned about capabilities. greta: did the topic of health care, but the town hall? >> people have said that the president has a lot of bad ideas. the moving of the prisoners, the cash for clunkers, health care. greta: congressman, thank you. up next, the best of the rest. it is alec baldwin giving up his day job? the man on your screen is a very stupid criminal. what is the last thing that you'd want to do in a police for me to keep my bones strong but even with calcium, vitamin d, and exercise, i still got o

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floyd was tried separately and sentenced to 15 years in lev leavenworth prison where he died of a heart attack before he would have paroled. laurie got ten years in the federal penitentiary and was released after serving eight in july of 1999. her son and only child was 15 years old. laurie had been gone for half of his life. by then, the meth business in the midwest had mutated into something that laurie couldn't believe. though she was quick to comprehend that it was a new, much more fully developed phenomenon than that which she had created. and along with laurie identified a spot for herself in the new order, she did the thing that she'd been doing all of her life. she went right back into business. [applause] >> thank you. >> okay. it's question and answer time. >> okay. >> i see a hand over there. >> yeah. >> i didn't have a chance to read the whole book but i was wondering have you had a chance to talk to these parents of these addicts? >> yeah. in fact, there's a character -- [inaudible] >> oh, yeah, the question is, did i have a chance to talk to any parents of addicts. and the

the administration is eying possible locations, a military penitentiary at fort leavenworth, kansas amongthers. a news conference will be held in about 20 minutes to discuss the reports. a lot of them are saying not in my back yard. >>> after having a beer at the white house last week harvard professor henry gates able to joke about his arrest. he told a crowd he liked crowley, the sergeant who arrested him, and the two hit it off. >> you know, why not? i offered to get his kids into harvard. if he doesn't arrest me ever again. he came up to me and said you look taller in your mug shot. >> there were some serious moments as well with gates saying he has received death threats and bomb threats stemming from his july 16th arrest. >>> check out this video. we got it in -- from a news source in turkey here. building just totally -- not a good way to start the week. that was supposed to be an implosion actually, a building demolition. >> that was a tipping point. >> i've heard of those before. but it narrowly missed an apartment there when it rolled over. nobody got hurt amazingly. >> what was

and he and i talked about that for a long time in leavenworth. not working out, not training, not studying. you know, kind of taking things for granted, gifts that the lord had given him. just really living on that and not working at it. >> vick: i just reached the point in my career where i just totally lost touch with my lord and savior. and you know, i thought i could do it on my own. and i couldn't. so, i had to... i had to resurrect that back into my life. >> brown: now, you know, most people who get in trouble, all of a sudden, they find god. and you say? >> vick: it's the only way i made it through prison. it's the only way i could live life is having faith and believing in... in the higher power, believing in god. >> brown: vick has also put his faith in the hands of a powerful group of attorneys, agents and media advisors, who are trying to rehabilitate his image and resuscitate his career, and help him through interviews like ours. michael, is this you talking, or the vick team of attorneys, image-shapers and the like? >> vick: this is

consideration, a prison in michigan that's about to close, and the military penitentiary at fort leavenworth, kansas. the idea quickly ran into criticism from republicans, including kansas senator sam brownback. >> i've been to guantanamo. i lead a congressional delegation there. the detainees are treated appropriately and safely there. if investigations find they are not treated appropriately and safely there, then change how they are treated there rather than move them to someplace in the united states as a publicity stunt. >> ifill: in another development, the associated press reported the cases of dozens of guantanamo detainees have been referred to federal prosecutors. a white house spokesman insisted no final decisions have been made. in afghanistan, a taliban bomb killed at least 11 people in the western part of the country. the target was a district police chief, who was critically wounded. 30 other people were hurt as well. and over the weekend, six american troops were killed in afghanistan, along with two canadians and a french soldier. the long search for u.s. navy captain michae

garrido confessed to rape and was sent to leavenworth prison.ry, he convinced a woman by the name of nancy bocanegra to marry him. she has stayed with him to this day. >> he a pervert. he should have been neutered while he was in prison. >> reporter: he was paroled after only 10 years of a 50-year sentence. after his release police say garrido and his wife nancy abducted 11-year-old jaycee in 1991 confining her in their home in antioch, california. neighbors are outraged that the police and a parole system missed numerous opportunities to rescue the kidnapped young woman. for "good morning america," mike von fremd, abc news, antioch, california. >> jaycee's stepfather carl probyn was there on the day she was abducted, watched helplessly from a distance, tried to chase after the abductor and joins us this morning. good morning to you. i guess first i'm just wondering every day there seems to be a new horrifying detail about this man who has confessed to this crime. >> it seems that way. you know, i'm learning the same thing. >> are you angry? are

. >> leavenworth. >> stay with me because i want to talk more about this on cnn.com/live. let's take you now to washington, d.c., "the situation room" and mimy colleague and my friend wolf blitzer. >>> thanks very much. happening now, breaking news. michael jackson's death is ruled a homicide. the los angeles county coroner has just released official findings about the powerful drugs that killed the pop star. stand by. >>> also this hour, the alleged abductors face charges in a bizarre child kidnapping case. we're learning right now more about a woman's 18-year ordeal. police say she's been living in her captor's back yard. >>> and mourning for ted kennedy's death gives way to a celebration of his life. we're counting down to the music and the memories later tonight. >>> and we're getting new information about moves to replace him in the united states senate. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." we begin with the breaking news we're following this hour. an explosive new development in the michael jackson investigation. the los angeles county coroner's office h

once in leavenworth, kansas, in prison for about an hour and three-hour visit during home detention. larry, all i can tell you at least during the interview he was consistent with what i use as a baseline to determine whether or not he was being consistent in his answers and not prepped answers, if you will. >> larry: do you -- how do we know if someone is really remorseful, james? >> i think that's purely subjective. everybody has, if you will, a floating standard to determine whether or not some people are being truthful and remorseful, whether it's body language, whether it's what they say or how they say. i tried to probe to get to the core of the answers in those areas that i know most people had concerns and questions to determine for themselves whether or not he was being truthful. >> larry: john goodwin, what's the humane society's position on all of this? >> we are getting michael vick a platform to speak out against dogfighting. his people approached us in january and said he wanted -- when he came out to make amends. to try to become a leader, to speak out against dogfight

leavenworth. if that doesn't give you reason to pause and reflect upon a disastrous decision that you've made, i don't know what else would. >> philadelphia is a tough sports town. is this a good town for him to go to? >> i was a columnist for four years from '03 to eight '07 and worked for the philadelphia inquirer. it's going to be tough, have a lot of people coming down on him. right now the tenor as i would term it is against michael vick. they're not happy with the philadelphia eagles organization. but that's nothing a touchdown, a sprint, assisting donovan mcnabb and the eagles towards capturing the super bowl will not cure. >> that is the city of brotherly love, is it not? >> oh, that's what you'd like to call it. i call it a few other things. but they are one of the best sports cities in america. >> all right, stephen a. smith, always a pleasure, thanks for joining us to be night. >>> we asked what you thought. are you ready to give michael vick a second chance? 75% of you said yes. 25% of

steve: we had someone from leavenworth, apparently another town that is on the government's map for uxised about a jailbreak so much, as they are followers of these people in the town. çdoes that worry you? >> not at all. there has never been a prison break there. they are locked up for life. as far as them being terrorists, it will not matter. once it is all said and done, in most important thing is keeping the doors and open. the town still benefits from it. i would look to see those people keep their jobs, but if they cannot, we are still going to have people come in to run the prison and contribute to the community. as far as their families staying there and what not, they will not be able to find work to maintain themselves. steve: there was a debate like this in dozen years ago or so when this present first opened. add your restaurant bar, you have put a coffin in there, for what purpose? >> [laughter] we put one outside to show that when the prison closes, that is what is going to happenç to our town, it is going to die. steve: because there will be no work? >> that is correct.

leavenworth as a possible site for -- >> and as the robert gibbs briefing continues now to turn towardsuantanamo, let's bring in tennessee senator, lamar alexander, member of the senate health committee. senator, did you hear enough from robert gibbs to make it clear that the president is not going to raise taxes on the, quote, middle class, which means people earning $250,000 or less, as defined by the white house? >> i find that very remarkable, andrea. for example, the health care plan that the democratic bill proposed will shift to the states so much new cost for medicaid that in tennessee, it would be at least a 5% new state income tax. and if they also pay doctors to take care of the low-income people they put on medicaid, it would be a 10%. middle class will pay that. and this weekend, isabel sawhill, who's in the clinton administration, many others were saying, in order to pass the obama agenda, you're going to have to tax the middle class. so i thought the comments yesterday were honest and i think the comments today are s misleading. >> well, they do say that they would eventu

include a soon-to-be closed maximum security prison in michigan and a military pen itentiary in leavenworthkansas. >>> well, iran detained three american hikers. swigs d swiss diplomats are trying to meet with them today. diplomacy, that's going to be tough because the united states doesn't have relations with iran. how are they going to get them out identify ran? >> they said the first step here is to just stay quiet. take a look at what he said. >> strategy number one is to shut up, to not talk publicly about it. number two is to talk to anyone who is talking to the government of iran, and that is the prime minister of iraq has good relations with the government of iran and the swiss have represented our interests there for some time. this is a real opportunity for the iranians to have a public relations coup that they can show they are still participating and these are students and they need to release them. that would be the smart move. >> if you were noting there it goes back to the 1970s during it rainian hostage situation. >> it may be difficult because of iran's political situation

one at fort leavenworth in kansas, and one in michigan.f course, some hate the idea of bringing the suspects here. others believe that we need to bring them here. with me now is the mayor of lansing, michigan. i also have a former attorney. we also have a fox news contributor. >> we house murderers and rapists. we have well-trained, well- equipped corrections officers that can do a good job. the concern they take care of these individuals. these are professionals. unfortunately, with michigan's economy, we could use a shot in the arm. this is something we are prepared to do. as long as they are going back to their country after serving time, we are well-equipped, and ready to go. martha: i understand your argument completely. also, as we were talking about in the break, i believe we have the capability to keep them in prison. the problem comes when you try to prosecute them in the country. the way a lot of the information must gleaned, it was gotten from methods that were not allowed. >> we could be talking about permanent jobs here guardi

leavenworth has kansas officials in an uproar. >> transferring terror suspects here places a bull's-eye on this community. >> people don't want them here. >> reporter: administration officials say ft. leavenworth and the maximum-security prison in standish, michigan, are being considered as possible multipurpose destinations for detainees that could contain courtrooms for both federal criminal trials and military commissions and house in one place detainees now being sorted into three groups. those being held for trial, those being indefinitely detained, and those cleared for release but without a country to take them. in standish, michigan, where the unemployment rate stands at 24%, the maximum-security prison is slated for closure. some local officials support using it as a detainee facility to preserve jobs. but michigan congressman pete hooksford disagrees, saying turning michigan into a terrorist penal colony is not the way to improve the economic situation. for now, the white house is dodging the argument. >> well, i don't know the degree to to which they've gotten into specific s

fort leavenworth, kan., which you will see in a moment, and a state prison in michigan. is this a good idea? charles has been to gitmo dozens of times, he is our guest this morning. >> a good morning, bill. bill: there was a classified study under the previous administration on where to put them. spanish, michigan. where that idea come from? >> i have no idea. they floated this trial balloon over the weekend to see if it would stick. they are not allowing anyone in the administration to travel to any detention facility in the united states to check it out, they do not want the press to get wind of it. bill: they are doing this covertly. spanish, mich., well north of detroit. you have been to gitmo dozens of times, can you move these detainee's to someplace in the u.s. and keep them safe? >> yes, you can. the fear is not that they will break out of prison. the fear is whether that would increase the threat level in that location substantially to the point where it is not worth it. the argument on one side is to keep gitmo open, transparent and humanely run. the argument m

contractors, are not involved in the planning process, as we go to war, whether it's going out to leavenworth and teaching a class, or going out to fort irwin, when a unit is running up for deployment, i think our government is making a huge mistake. that's the end of my comment. >> when we met, with secretary of the army, secretary gerron, he made a very strong point about how he's trying to change the culture of the military so that they value the contracting aspect that is inherent now with the department of defense where half of the personnel are contractors, and not men and women in uniform. and part of that is to rec it by the status of -- recognize it by the status of you can be tracked to being a general or aye an admiral instead of becoming a colonel and so on. and he also made a point to us that he thinks even in military exercises, contractors should participate. in the military exercises. i am wondering if any of the three of you have ever been invited to participate in the military exercises. >>. >> in a military exercise, we have had contracts where we would basically set up the

when i went to leavenworth, one of the questions i asked mike is, where was the lord in all of this? he explained his spiritual life growing up, and when he went to the nfl, that was one of the mistakes he made. he felt like he did not need the lord anymore. with some of the things that happened, he felt like he needed a that turned -- to turn back. i feel like he is going and the right direction. gregg: a settlement in the career of former nfl star michael vick. he appeared to be quite contrite and remorseful, saying that he made a horrible mistake, poor judgment in leading this brittle dogfighting ring for which he served 18 months in federal prison and several months in home confinement. michael vick is assigned to the philadelphia eagles, which already has a star quarterback. vick thanked donovan for being instrumental in leading the eagles to sign vick, who was familiar with their offense. he also thanked the n.f.l. commissioner, who lifted his suspension and allowed him to play in preseason games. a full lifting of suspension could have affect -- could take effect somewhere in

phillip and nancy met while he was serving time at a federal pen tentry in leavenworth for a kidnapping and rape in the 1970s. nancy once worked in the health care industry and was rarely seen by neighbors. >> i never would imagine that somebody could have a compound and nobody in the neighborhood would even have a clue. >> reporter: these are the first photos from inside the backyard prison showing up close the disturbing conditions in which jaycee dugard was held captive. now a bizarre manifesto written by garrido has surfaced arizonaed to the san francisco fbi describing his efforts to control the desires that drive a sexual predator. cab dafr dogs entered the property as police looked for evidence ga redid he may be involved in the murders of other women missing in the area. >> we hissed an opportunity -- >> reporter: several opportunities. first a sheriff's deputy visited the property in 2006. >> he did not unfortunately go into the home or the wac yard. >> reporter: there was a visit from a sexual predator task force, regular checks by a parole officer. even the fire department. >

. >> robert, is the administration looking at fort leavenworth as a possible site for detainees fromh they've gotten into specific sightings, i think we made progress on dealing with a number of issues that the executive order that needed to be dealt with as part of the executive order in reviewing the case files and in deciding who can and should be transferred. but no final decisions have been made. >> bottom line what we were waiting to hear is what robert gibbs to say about taxes. we heard on a couple interviews from secretary tim geithner, we're talking about not just rising on the rich. during the interviews over the weekend, the talk was about the broad-based tax hike maybe needed to cut the deficit and bank roll health reform, something that candidate obama said he would not do and now all of a sudden we're having the talk about tax hikes and it's getting americans wore riled about that. we'll follow that throughout the day from the hill to the white house. meanwhile, we'll have more from the cnn newsroom straight ahead after a quick break. sometimes the best way to get close

and a military penitentiary in leavenworth, kansas, as possible locations for heavily-guarded site. >>> the senate finance committee has five days to get the healthcare reform bill out of committee before the senate august 7 recess. lawmakers on both sides of the debate have not been shy about the legislative fight ahead. caroline shively has more. hi. >> hi, shannon. this is going to be one bruiser of a recess. lawmakers may be leaving washington behind for five weeks but now they're taking that fight back to the home district. house democrats want to convince constituent what is they passed friday in committee will help those out there with no insurance covered and slow growth of healthcare cost. the republican mantra is it's a job killer that crushes small businesses and put the government between you and your doctor. here is part of the debate on "fox news sunday" today. >> we're going to see americans take to the street in august and go to their congressman's office and go to town halls. i think they're going to let the congressmen and senators know they need to keep their hands

military prison at fort leavenworth, kansas is being considered.2010. >>> the mayor of standish, michigan. mayor, welcome to the program. what do you think about this? >> first of all, thanks for having me. the consensus in our community is the number one concern you mentioned. we have a lot of people that could be without jobs that work for the state of michigan as far as correction officers. those folks are the main concern. i know california and other states have been inquiring about the prison. probably our number one option would be going with another state so that our people could continue to work. if that doesn't work out, this is a viable option. haven't heard too many people against it. standish max has been in our area for 19 years. we haven't had any bad affects. >> has anybody ever escaped? the fear is somebody escapes. you get the fantasy, have you ever had any realities? >> no, in 19 years there's never been an escapee from standish max. there was an escapee of an individual who was mowing a lawn from a lower security prison, that hap