GOP Rep. Steve King: Closing Gitmo = Citizenship for Terrorists

On Mike Gallagher’s radio show, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) said that President Obama's closing down Guantanamo Bay prison would somehow lead to terrorists becoming US citizens.

First, King claimed that Obama’s actions could be “the beginning of shutting down…the activities of the CIA.” When Gallagher said that Obama wanted to “bestow American citizenship rights to somebody from another country” who wants “ to murder civilian Americans,” King claimed that closing Gitmo could put 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed “on a path to citizenship."

King offered no actual examples of this scenario.