
" ... you know, there's kind of this self-appointed appointment to keep -- Gitmo open all these years, the three years that President Obama has been trying to close it.
Well, I think it is -- demonstrated clearly now, some of the initial steps came from there and, of course, the CIA interrogation methods that he was criticizing. If it hadn't been for that, Osama bin Laden would be alive today.
I really think we need to expand now and start letting -- putting new detainees into -- into Gitmo. There's no place else they can put them, Wolf. They have to put them in these countries where they catch him. Then they turn them loose. It's a revolving door. So I think we need to use that great resource than we have called Gitmo."
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James Inhofe, The Situation Room, May 12