To close Gitmo or not to close Gitmo, that is the question – to paraphrase Shakespeare.
Recently a Defense Department official said a new report estimates that one-fifth of the detainees who have been released from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo to many) have resumed terrorist activity.
This will certainly intensify the debate over the Enemy Combatant prison in Gitmo. The Pentagon report on the released detainees remains classified and DoD officials refused to discuss it publicly. However, the Pentagon Press Secretary, Geoff Morrell, acknowledged the numbers had risen since April, when the DoD said about 74 former detainees – about 14% of those released – had returned to terrorist actions against the United States.
While this seems to concern Congress there has been little comment from the Administration.
The idea to bring enemy combatants, captured on the battlefield or captured in foreign countries, to be tried in federal courts is as much a bad idea as closing Gitmo.
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Things have to be worse before they can get better. They are rapidly getting worse. At the rate the Obama Administration is going, even democrats will start looking for that illusive birth certificate as a means to put a completely inept, unqualified administration out to pasture. While not related to Gitmo, the only thread of hope that I have for this Administration is in that General Jim Jones remains in place. When he bolts or is fired it will be a sure sign that we’re at rock bottom.