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Fully KeptNational Security / Guantanamo

Committed to blocking the transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainees to Fort Leavenworth or elsewhere in the United States, and sponsored legislation (the Detaining Terrorists to Protect America Act) to prohibit such transfers.

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Fully KeptFact-checker reviewConfidence: 85%

All three cited sources are reachable and every quoted passage appears verbatim. The promise has two components, both supported: (1) The sponsorship half is directly confirmed by Moran's own 2015 press release, which states the Detaining Terrorists to Protect America Act (S.165) was "legislation sponsored by Sen. Moran" — Moran was a cosponsor in the 114th Congress, which his office frames as sponsorship. (2) The blocking half is supported by the 2016 Moran column (sustained personal commitment to blocking transfers to Fort Leavenworth/the U.S.) and the Scott release (the NDAA continuing the funding prohibition on transferring detainees to the United States). The underlying outcome is factually accurate: no Guantanamo detainee has ever been transferred to Fort Leavenworth or elsewhere on U.S. soil, a block sustained through successive NDAA provisions. The FULL rating does not overstate the evidence — the rationale honestly notes Moran was one of numerous cosponsors and that the operative block was a collective, bipartisan NDAA provision, which is why it was rated FULL rather than CHAMPIONED. The Scott source does not mention Moran and attributes the bill's introduction to Ayotte/Scott, but it is cited only for the general NDAA-prohibition fact, which it does support; the Moran-office source carries the sponsorship claim. No fabricated quotes, no unreachable sources, no overstatement.

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