Pentagon Releases List of Gitmo Detainees Who Returned to Terrorism

I just thik it was amazingly brilliant to tag them all with micro GPS locator devices. (shrug)

This was not supposed to happen. The utopians showed "rule of law". Short sighted leftist dems and their "lets talk" policy.

Angie..I find your comments offensive and primitive at best; as well as, inacurrate..Yes, 911 did in fact TAKE PLACE on Bush's watch; HOWEVER, the planning took place on Clinton's watch. The murderers were in Country under Clinton's watch taking flight lessons with the help of the "Wall of Silence" between the CIA and FBI... PROOF you demand??? Who really knows, check Sandy Berger pants for the classified documents of the assessment of terrorist threats in 2000, you know Samuel R Berger the national security adviser to President Bill Clinton ..Did the Dems prevent: World Traded Center attack; U.S. Embassy attacks; The Cole attack; complete mis-handling of the Black Hawk Down affair.

This terrorism should not be assigned to any political party EVERYONE MESSED UP AND EVERYONE WILL MESS UP IN THE FUTURE the goal is too minimize the damage..Gitmo will be one of Obama's bad decisions..Should have found a place for them before shutting them down...

Bush and Cheney Released them, Just like they Invaded Iraq with no exit plan, and opened Gitmo with no plan. Thank god those bumbiling idiots are gone. Cheney wants to go around touting he and Bush kept us safe meanwhile 911 Happened on their watch, and they released terriost back to terriost what idiots!

It's easy .. just change the spots on the leopards .. before you let them back into the wild...

Absolutely incredible, we have a President who approves the bombing of innocents on a daily basis and yet the focus of dissent is based on our treatment of enemy combatants captured on the field of battle. Where is the outcry?

But it takes a majority to let a perfectly viable republic fall to the whims of their nature.

Takes less than .002% to push a button..

MarkLeavanworth:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, "

Rights just for citizens that pre-exist the institution of governments? Funny way of reading you have there.
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jhw539-
I regret that I took a glance back to see this, but I guess we all have to take steps back at some point.

The trouble seems to be that when the natural and true ideals upon which governments are built are taken by the governed as being the proof of the natural state of their government, that then the governed take on a false sense of security that they can handle the reigns of government with nothing more than the adherance to the truth of the natural ideals. It is to SECURE these ideals for ourselves that governments are instituted. They do not secure themselves, neither should we pretend that we have the right to secure them for those whom we do not govern.

J House,

I agree with you on the extraordinary renditions program. I don't know enough about Clinton's role in it, but I am not one who view all this strictly as a partisan issue.

MarkLeavanworth:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, "

Rights just for citizens that pre-exist the institution of governments? Funny way of reading you have there.

And this statistic is a surprise to whom? Even if every one of the Gitmo people were innocent sheep before being picked up, I'd expect more than this percentage to want "revenge" upon release. That's the Catch-22 of this situation.

El P,

You didn't mention what was done to AQ suspects BEFORE Bush/Cheney.
The fact is, they were taken to 3rd countries like Egypt,Jordan,Morocco,etc. where they were routinely tortured.
CIA didn't use the 'take' from these 'interrogations' because they knew these people were tortured.
That was the Clinton rendition program, my friend.
Go to cspan and watch Micheal Scheuer's testimony in front of Rep. Delahunt's 'rendition' committte and see for yourself.
Now, this White House is back to the same Clinton program,i.e., sending them 'away' and not incarcerating them.

jaj,

You didn't, but nice try.

First, Bush/Cheney put some terror SUSPECTS in gitmo. Some were terrorists, some were innocent. And because of the way Bush/Cheney handled this, the question of guilt was subsequently very hard to answer beyond reasonable doubt.

"Libs cry, it's not fair to these poor innocent people to sit in prison w/no justice!"

I'll go with that. But I guess by "innocent" you mean terrorists, right? We libs try to differentiate between the two; innocent people good, terrorists bad. Twisted liberal logic, I know.

"to appease those crying liberals, Bush/Cheney release some terrorist"

Cheney appeasing liberals? Hardly. This one you should blame on the Supreme Court, not the liberals.

And yes, I am partly blaming Bush/Cheney for those who went back to the battlefield, because Bush and Cheney are the ones who f---ed up the legal cases against them with their above-the-law approach.

This story states "one in seven of the released Gitmo detainees are SUSPECTED." The key operative word is "SUSPECTED." Most people "SUSPECT" that there are aliens out there, far advanced beyond our own species. SUSPECTING is NOT "knowing" with any degree of reliable certainty. Watch what you read very carefully. Someone is always trying to slip one past you while you're sleeping. Why isn't this article or any U.S. media disclosing what percentage of Gitmo detainees was released for "lack of evidence" after many, many years of unlawful confinement under horrific abusive conditions? We know it is a very large percentage. Is that why the media won't focus down on the IMPORTANT, meaningful facts that surround the Gitmo issue? The media in this country absolutely sucks out load.

Once again, here is a columnist who believe his fellow Americans are too stupid to be able to put things together. So, 14% return to terrorism? Wow... Well, considering that 67% of American criminals are rearrested within 3 years of being released from prison, that's a pretty low rate. Oh, but we are all too stupid to understand that a 14% return rate is low. Why do guys like this hold their fellow Americans in such contempt?!?!? Oh, that's right because they have used fear to control us so well in the past.

Cheney and Bush made the decision to release those individuals. That is their responsibility plain and simple.

So heres a thought. Dont release them.

1 in 7 or 14% does NOT seem like a large number to me. Plus, that's an estimate not based on fact, but instead on guess work. After having kept people in solitary confinement, torturing them on occasion and then finally releasing them because we had no evidence against them, well, I would think the number would be much, much higher. If I was treated the same way, I know I would come out hostile to America to say the least.

14%? That's a rather impressive recidivism rate. U.S. prisons have a rate well over 60%, for inmates re-arrested within a few years of their original incarceration. So if you put those numbers in perspective, "one in seven" seems like a remarkably low number.