Posted on 08/16/2016 2:58:15 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
State Department: ‘Very Few’ Freed Gitmo Detainees Return to Terrorism David Rutz
BY: August 16, 2016 5:02 pm
State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Tuesday that “very few” released Guantanamo Bay detainees return to terrorism while addressing the transfer of 15 Gitmo prisoners by the Obama administration.
President Obama, who has sought to close Gitmo since he took office, sent 15 detainees to the United Arab Emirates this week, the largest single transfer of prisoners from the detention facility of his presidency. Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R., N.H.) said the 12 Yemenis and three Afghans in the transfer are “among the worst terrorists who could jeopardize our national security and the lives of our troops.”
A reporter asked Toner whether the government could guarantee recidivism wouldn’t happen, and if not, why release the prisoners.
“The detainees have been vetted through what is a very rigorous process, and I can assure you that it’s a very rigorous process—looked at all of the, you know, whether they would return to the battlefield,” Toner said. “Recidivism, I guess, is the terminology used. Is it 100 percent foolproof? Have there been no cases or zero cases of this happening? Well, no. There have been cases of it, but very few.”
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If one returns to terrorism to kill dozens, isn’t that too many?
Well I guess the “Harf Barf” was even too much for the State Dept. so they had groomed a new fool to peddle their stupidity.
How would this Toner-Sniffing little lying shit know anything about what is going on in the ISIS battlefields?
Our intelligence has been compromised more than I’ve ever sign and the decision to let ISIS fighters escape from Manjib shows how cowardly we have become.
PS Toner: When a JDAM missile hits a vehicle, there is often nothing left of the targets except their balls, and I’ve only read of a few cases where our forces/allies have actually gone to the scene of the action and taken photos and DNA samples.
Show us the bodies of the ISIS fighters and leaders. Tell us how many former GITMO alumni have been identified on the battlefield or as killed in battle.
Is there anyone in the State Department who is honest? The same for DOD’s leadership. I wouldn’t trust any of our Secretary of the Navy, Army, Air Force, etc. to wash my cat.
I met more honest, braver ARVN (7th ARVN Div. Ham Luong River)and Cambodian military leaders (Gen. Sosthene Fernandez, Chief of Staff) in their countries than I’m seeing/hearing in Obama’s deconstructed, PCed, don’t want to win, military.
America is in greater danger than we think. With Hillary, it will be total surrender.
Sooooo They are TERRORISTS (guess they didn’t really mean to be)
What difference at this time does it Matter!
Same ol Same ol ...
ZERO must be stopped from emptying GITMO
ZERO is a Traitor and must be CALLED OUT!
(Dang it ... I burnt my bridge with my Congress Critter over Obamacare, my letters now go in his circular file)
And urban protests are "mostly peaceful."
Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails
Just call me Lucifer
‘Cause I'm in need of some restraint
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