Guantanamania in the House of Bush Posted by Patrick Barry

News that about 1 in 5 of the detainees released from Guantanamo are associated or suspected to be associated with some form of extremist activity is likely to aid certain opportunists bent on hemming in the President's efforts to remove the motivating factors that lead to terrorism.  What's so vexing about that is that the story itself has almost nothing to do with the Obama administration.  Read this portion:

"Mr. Obama inherited 242 detainees at Guantánamo when he took office, and so far he has released or transferred 44. Of the 198 remaining, about 92 are from Yemen. Of those, just under 40 have been cleared for release.

An administration official said Wednesday that the White House had 'been presented with no information that suggests that any of the detainees transferred by this administration have returned to the fight.'"

It's been a long time since I've done any maths, but doesn't that amount to..0% of the detainees released under Obama? Greg Sargent sure thinks so. It seems like the headline could easily have been "1 in 5 Bush Administration Detainees Return to Extremism" or better yet, "No Detainees Released Under Obama Return to Battlefield."

So why is the Obama administration so good at keeping detainees hardened by years of terrible treatment at Guantanamo from sliding into terrorism? Well according to the official quoted in Sargent's coverage, it's because Obama took the wildly unusual step of creating the Guantanamo Review Task Force, which reviews the record of each detainee held at Guantanamo.  And why was the Bush administration so bad at keeping detainees from becoming terrorists after their release? Well, because they didn't do anything like that.  One of the other things the Bush administration didn't do was keep comprehensive files on many of the detainees located at Guantanamo. That must have made for a pretty topsy turvy environment. With everything so discombobulated, It should not surprise anyone that a guy like Said Ali al-Shihri - who became the deputy commander of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which planned the underpants bombing - managed to go free.  

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