{"id":26239,"date":"2015-08-10T16:19:32","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T20:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=26239"},"modified":"2015-08-10T16:19:59","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T20:19:59","slug":"at-least-there-is-some-check-on-releasing-prisoners-from-guantanamo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=26239","title":{"rendered":"At Least There Is Some Check On Releasing Prisoners From Guantanamo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed Morrissey<\/a> at Hot Air<\/a> posted a story today about the continuing push by President Obama<\/a> to release all of the prisoners from Guantanamo<\/a> Bay in Cuba<\/a>. It is quite possible that the recent ‘normalization’ of America<\/a>‘s relationship to Cuba might be related to this desire in some way. However, here at home, there seems to be another roadblock in the President’s way (thank goodness).<\/p>\n

In January of this year, NewsMax<\/a> ran a story about the recidivism rate<\/a> of former Guantanamo prisoners. They compared the numbers the government has released with their information. Any resemblance between the two sets of numbers was purely coincidental.<\/p>\n

These are the government figures:<\/p>\n

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This is what the article says about those numbers:<\/p>\n

Republican claims of a 30 percent recidivism rate are based on combining the figures in green on all detainees confirmed or suspected of re-engaging in terrorism.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I believe the actual recidivism rate is probably 30 percent or higher because of the time and difficulty in determining whether released Gitmo detainees<\/a> have returned to terrorism. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Further complicating this determination are very strict definitions set by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence<\/a> to define what \u201cconfirmed\u201d and \u201csuspected of\u201d reengaging in terrorist activities mean. Among other things, these definitions require evidence of direct involvement in terrorist activities and exclude communications with terrorist groups or engaging in anti-U.S. propaganda.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, President Obama is dealing with a familiar problem regarding the release of the prisoners.<\/p>\n

Ed Morrissey reports:<\/p>\n

Carter (Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter<\/a>) also said that not every detainee in Guantanamo can be freed. \u201c[W]e have to be very clear \u2013 there are people in Guantanamo Bay who cannot and should not be released because they will return to the terrorist fight,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd therefore we need a place where we can detain them in the long term. We have been forbidden to create such a place in U.S. territory.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the problem that President Obama ran into with the last Secretary of Defense. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. There has been speculation that our involvement with Cuba will involve the turning over of Guantanamo to Cuba. It will be interesting to see how that will be handled between now and the time that President Obama leaves office. A first-term President is not likely to want a resume that includes the release of prisoners that were later to be found killing Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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