Finally a decent response. And I read the other one on the other post. I don't think Bush would have had a leg to stand on about invading Iraq if it wasn't for 9-11. What you have failed to remember is I always agreed that we should not have went into Iraq (atleast not when we did). My point is that 9-11 opened a pandoras box of possibilities. My problem with Clinton (and why I keep bringin it up) is that SO many people make it sound like he had no responsiblity. If ya'll want Bush to stand tall and take responsibiltiy, all I'm saying is atleast admit Clinton screwed up. But you make it sound like Bush has held 110% of the blame for 9-11. Everything is connected.
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This does not necessarily mean that Guantanamo detainees released in the later part of 2008 were responsible for the increase. There is often a lengthy lag time between the time a detainee is freed and when U.S. intelligence officials learn of the individual's terrorist involvement. Still, the spike in the recidivist rate is not surprising, defense officials say. "The easy ones were released first," said a senior Pentagon official. "As time goes on, the releases become harder and harder. These are increasingly more difficult cases."
As of now, about 240 detainees remain at Guantanamo. Human rights groups and defense lawyers insist there is little or no evidence of terrorist involvement against scores of them. Some federal judges agree, having ordered the Pentagon in recent weeks to release some of them. The Obama administration, which has given itself a one-year deadline to shut down the facility, is hoping that European countries, like Portugal, Spain and Germany, will agree to take some of these detainees. The administration is also trying to get the government of Yemen to take about 100 of its nationals—the largest single group of prisoners at the facility. But even these assumptions are shaky. The Pentagon has been trying for months to hammer out an agreement with the Yemeni government to monitor released Guantanamo detainees with little success.
The hardest chunk involves a core number, estimated by some officials to be about 50 or 60, who are deemed to be highly dangerous but who, for a variety of reasons—including the fact that they may have been subjected to waterboarding or other "enhanced" interrogation techniques—may be impossible to try in any federal or military court. The Obama administration is likely to have no choice but to move them to another facility inside the United States, such as the U.S. naval brig in Charleston, S.C., or the military prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and hold them indefinitely without trial, thereby risking worldwide criticism that it is simply creating a "Guantanamo, South Carolina" or a "Guantanamo, Kansas."
While the Obama administration may create some sort of system for periodic judicial review of these cases, the one thing it won't do is release these detainees, said one senior Obama adviser who asked not to be identified talking about the White House's internal thinking on the matter. Asked about the prospect that some of these detainees might be let go, the adviser brushed the thought aside. "That's not going to happen," he said.
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