It seems Jim Moran’s hometown spoke out on this issue a couple of months ago, according to this news report.  Residents were apparently “decidedly unfriendly to news that the Obama administration might move some detainees from their highly controlled military fortress at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Alexandria.” The rest of the political establishment is not nearly as excited as Moran about being a “host city”:

“We would be absolutely opposed to relocating Guantanamo prisoners to Alexandria,” Mayor William D. Euille (D) said. “We would do everything in our power to lobby the president, the governor, the Congress and everyone else to stop it. We’ve had this experience, and it was unpleasant. Let someone else have it.”

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The 2006 death penalty trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, who was convicted of conspiring in the terrorist attacks of Sept, 11, 2001, turned the neighborhood into a virtual encampment, with heavily armed agents, rooftop snipers, bomb-sniffing dogs, blocked streets, identification checks and a fleet of television satellite trucks.

Well, perhaps Moran will have a town meeting and explain why citizens should put such parochial concerns aside to help out the Obama administration. And Moran has company — one of his neighboring colleagues, Gerry Connolly (who replaced Rep. Tom Davis) isn’t game on efforts to keep terrorists out. In a radio interview he said he wouldn’t be supporting the Keep Terrorists Out of America bill and sounded peeved that anyone would object to letting terrorists loose here.

This should be an interesting test of the popularity of the president’s policies on national security and whether Virginia (which holds state elections this fall) will remain in the blue column.