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Loose Canons
Obama’s Gitmo Melodrama
Signing on for another year of weakness and confusion.
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Obama doesn’t fear the left’s frothing over his broken campaign promise. But this isn’t an issue of minor import to the president: it is part of his core beliefs that Gitmo has to be closed in order for us to satisfy those with whom we are at war. Both he and his attorney general have gone to extraordinary lengths to move the terrorists at Gitmo into the civilian justice system and to release too many of them. Barred, at least temporarily from the former, Obama is very likely to resort to the latter despite the law’s restrictions.
According to a report by the Director of National Intelligence released in December, the rate of recidivism among released Gitmo inmates has reached about 25%, counting those released by the Bush administration. The rate — measured by the Pentagon — roughly doubled between June 2008 and May 2009. That will not prevent further releases.
Both Obama and Holder have consistently ignored Congress when it suited them. (Just ask Republican members of the Senate, whose unanswered letters to Obama and Holder remain a smoldering controversy.) The most likely outcome is that the Obama administration will either ignore the new certification requirements entirely or belatedly send inadequately supported findings to Congress after more Gitmo inmates are released.
The Gitmo Melodrama will continue. Of the 174 inmates still there, at least 80 are considered the hardest of the hard cases and not susceptible of trial even in military commissions. They, at least, should stay at Gitmo for the rest of their lives.
About the Author
Jed Babbin served as a Deputy Undersecretary of Defense under George H.W. Bush. He is the author of several bestselling books including Inside the Asylum and In the Words of Our Enemies. You can follow him on Twitter @jedbabbin.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 1.10.11 @ 6:53AM
The only real stain on American Honor is how Obama is handling this. These terrorists should get a trial by military tribunal and then they should be shot if convicted.
RabidAmerican| 1.10.11 @ 8:14PM
Maybe this admenstruation just can't pull the trigger on these comrades, I mean scum.
I volunteer.
WilliamInWien| 1.10.11 @ 11:45AM
Since the US is in no hurry to return GITMO to Cuba, I do no see any reason to transfer the current residents to the US for trial in a civilian court. As Mr. O'Stalin states, they should be tried in a military court. Possibly, in two-year's time, when BHO is unemployed, he could utilize his community organizer talents and get to work amongst these misdirected souls. In the interim, I would hope that the US military gives preferential treatment in future assignments to its members who have been posted to guard these creatures.
PattyMor| 1.10.11 @ 9:41PM
The Demons slipped that into the Defense Bill to save themselves from Obama's delusional policy to bring KSM and his merry band of terrorists to trial in NYC.
john glad| 1.11.11 @ 5:58AM
Jed, you're one of us. Thank God above. Like us, you finally understand that these feces-throwing brutes must be exterminated, as quickly as possible, and their severed heads placed on pikes outside the al Qaeda training camps, or at least where the camps used to exist. No matter the cost. No matter the screeching by the so-called "human rights" crowd. For once, a journalist who understands what war really entails, and does not turn his prescription-lens enhanced insight from it -- no, you face these issues with unstinting courage, pen in hand, ready to record every sort of left-wing foolishness with a cold, dispassionate eye. You know, after we've scared these savages into submission, or killed them all (it's their choice, after all), we can turn our sights on our domestic enemies, eh? We need someone like you to lead that charge. If it interferes with your writing duties, we know you're prepared to make that sacrifice. Again, God bless, my friend. God bless.
Adidas | 8.11.11 @ 5:51AM
is good
العاب | 4.10.12 @ 1:02PM
thank you verey gooood