{"id":11587,"date":"2009-06-12T08:59:34","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T13:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=11587"},"modified":"2009-06-12T08:59:34","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T13:59:34","slug":"dia-warns-congress-against-detainee-transfers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=11587","title":{"rendered":"DIA warns Congress against detainee transfers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kara Rowland at the Washington Times<\/a> reports that the Defense Intelligence AGency has warned Congress in a letter about kicking loose some of the potentially dangerous detainees held by the US;<\/p>\n

Military intelligence officials have quietly told Congress they advised against transferring 25 of the 60 Guantanamo Bay terror detainees deemed eligible for relocation by the Obama administration, including five who are considered to be highly dangerous and likely to return to the battlefield.<\/p>\n

But the Defense Intelligence Agency officials did not raise any formal objections with the administration because they concluded the decision to move prisoners already had been made, according to a letter Sen. Tom Coburn, a member of the intelligence committee, sent Tuesday to Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair.<\/p>\n

In the letter, obtained by The Washington Times, the Oklahoma Republican senator questions whether the White House put political considerations ahead of national security.<\/p>\n

“The DIA told the committee that DIA has not objected to the release of many rank-and-file members of terrorist organizations ‘due to an explicit understanding that many detainees were destined to be transferred out of GTMO regardless of intelligence-based objections,’ ” Mr. Coburn wrote. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But the Obama Administration is so set on making this a legal issue instead of a national security issue, no genuine concerns about protecting Americans here or abroad can convince them otherwise. <\/p>\n

After four years of war, in 1945, there were over 400,000 prisoners of war held in the United States from Germany, Italy and Japan. There was no outcry from Americans to release them back into their native countries because they hadn’t been proved to be criminals. <\/p>\n

Also, our troops weren’t on the battlefields of Europe and the Pacific reading them their rights. Can you imagine George Patton reading the Miranda warning to the 14,000 Germans he captured when he broke out of Normandy? Or Alvin York and his seven buddies mirandizing his 128 prisoners in WWI?<\/p>\n

But how much criticism did we hear from the Left that George Bush was so arrogant that he wouldn’t listen to his generals? Isn’t this arrogance, too? Just to keep an ill-considered campaign promise. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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