Here's what Mike Allen at Politico posted:
Obama still plans to close Gitmo
Closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility remains “a national security imperative” despite a news report that two of the planners behind the attempted airborne bombing on Christmas Day had been released from Gitmo in 2007, a senior administration official said.
ABC News’ Brian Ross reported: “Two of the four leaders allegedly behind the Al Qaeda plot to blow up a Northwest Airlines passenger jet over Detroit were released by the U.S. from the Guantanamo prison in November 2007, according to American officials and Department of Defense documents.”
The administration official said, “The detention facility at Guantanamo has been used by Al Qaeda as a rallying cry and recruiting tool — including its affiliate al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. As our military leaders have recognized, closing the detention facility at Guantanamo is a national security imperative.
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Obama had set a one-year deadline for the closure but now says that will slip as the administration looks for suitable places to transfer the detainees, including the Thomson Correctional Center in Illinois.
Closing the detention facility is a national security imperative?!? WTF?!?
As Publius quipped at Big Government about Christmas' near tragic plane bomber:
"We’re a little confused by this attack. George W. Bush is gone, so the world should love us again. Plus, Camp Gitmo is closing. What else could these terrorists want?? Maybe this terrorist simply saw the attack as a way to relocate to Northern Illinois."
Christopher Merola at Townhall.com believes the Democrats have been exploiting the Gitmo issue, flinging lie after lie, for the upcoming 2010 political races:
If the terrorists go to trial in the USA, instead of a military trial, then the Democrats can use the trials for constant drama -- drama that further demonizes Bush and the Republicans in hopes of winning over more voters. It is nothing more than political grandstanding.
The Democrats simply want to use the GITMO issue as a battering ram against the Republicans. The irony here is that no abuse has occurred at GITMO. Yet, all this talk of abuse by the media and the Democrat Party only draws attention to the real civil rights abuses that occurred during a time of war; abuse that is never discussed by the Democrats or the American media.
Dear Leader, Congress, Homeland Security and the American People need to jettison their idiotic and suicidal political correctness and do something about the ongoing threat from terrorists.
Here's what Frank Gaffney at Newsmax suggests (emphasis added):
Stop the Gimo Closing Now
ABC News reports that “Two of the four leaders allegedly behind the al-Qaida plot to blow up a Northwest Airlines passenger jet over Detroit were released by the U.S. from the Guantanamo prison in November, 2007, according to American officials and Department of Defense documents.”
If true, any further action to close the state-of-the-art detention facility popularly known as Gitmo and transfer its occupants elsewhere – particularly to Yemen – must be suspended at once. Should President Obama fail to do so, such direction must be adopted by Congress, possibly followed with a resolution of impeachment.
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These are hardly the only detainees released from Guantanamo Bay to return to the fight. The known recidivism rate is said to be on the order of 15 percent; the actual number is presumably much higher.
For the first time, however, ABC News quoted an unnamed American official giving lie to the notion that those turned over for “rehabilitation” were being dissuaded from reengaging in jihad: “‘The so-called rehabilitation programs are a joke,’ a U.S. diplomat said in describing the Saudi efforts with released Guantanamo detainees.”
Even Saudi officials were reported to have acknowledged that the kingdom’s “program has had its ‘failures,’” although they insisted that, “overall, the effort has helped return potential terrorists to a meaningful life.” The ABC report caustically described how “One [Saudi rehabilitation] program gives the former detainees paints and crayons as part of the rehabilitation regimen.” ...
As former federal prosecutor and National Review columnist Andy McCarthy has observed, with the decision to release terrorists not only to Yemen but Somalia and Afghanistan, we might as well drop the pretense of a middleman and acknowledge that we are turning them over to al-Qaida, itself.
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As long, however, as the President fails to recognize what defines our enemies – namely, their adherence to the totalitarian, seditious program known as Shariah – his administration will not be able to keep us safe from the threat they pose, let alone defeat them.
And if Mr. Obama persists in trying to shutter Guantanamo Bay and, in the process, winds up repopulating our foes’ ranks with those properly and necessarily detained there, he will only embolden Shariah’s adherents to kill many more of us. That would breach his oath of office, and surely constitute grounds for his impeachment.
Are you listening, President Obama?
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