{"id":16257,"date":"2009-12-22T14:00:24","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T19:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=16257"},"modified":"2009-12-22T14:00:24","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T19:00:24","slug":"just-let-em-all-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=16257","title":{"rendered":"Just let ’em all go"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the Obama Administration had us distracted with the health care debate this weekend and the plan for putting Gitmo detainees in IL<\/a>, the media had us fixated on snowfall and cops with guns, under the table the Justice Department was releasing some Guantanamo detainees back where we got them. <\/p>\n

One of our readers, bdaman sent us a BBC link<\/a> (since our own media doesn’t seem too interested in the war against terror these days)<\/p>\n

“These transfers were carried out under individual arrangements between the United States and relevant foreign authorities to ensure the transfers took place under appropriate security measures,” the Department of Justice said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“Consultations with foreign authorities regarding these individuals will continue.”<\/p>\n

Yemenis account for almost half of the 198 detainees who remain at the US military base in Cuba. But officials fear many could re-join militant groups if sent back to Yemen. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, “officials fear”, but apparently none of them are in the Justice Department. Uncle Jimbo of Blackfive<\/a> and In The Crosshairs<\/a> fame tells us about the most disturbing of this weekend’s bunch;<\/p>\n

This is not some poor bastard who was scarfed up in Afghanistan and sold to us by some warlord. We conducted a raid into Somalia specifically to capture this guy and now he is just back on the street? I kinda doubt it was the military changing their minds that he was a High Value Detainee, so we have the Attorney General and his friends in the terrorist fellow travelers camp to thank for this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But this isn’t important enough for our own media to cover, so there are lots of questions that won’t be answered. At The Weekly Standard Blog<\/a>, Thomas Jocelyn writes;<\/p>\n

In other words, the DOJ and Foggy Bottom control transfer decisions, not the military officials who have been responsible for detaining, interrogating, and analyzing the intelligence collected on each Gitmo detainee. That is not surprising. Lake\u2019s comments reinforce what we\u2019ve known for some months. The DOJ, in particular, plays a leading role in President Obama\u2019s interagency review board, which in turn makes transfer decisions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So the war against terror is just another police action with the politicians and law enforcement agencies operating as the military. Naw, that doesn’t scare me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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