Obama's ulterior detainee scheme
"Was there ever a people whose leaders were as truly their enemies as this one?" -- Hemingway
There are three questions nagging Americans over Obama's fetishes for closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center and the ultimate disposition of the captured terrorists. To date, no reasonable answers have been forthcoming.
Why the obsession for releasing terrorists to murder yet more Americans? Why the obsession to transfer the remaining terrorists to a facility within the United States? Why the obsession to provide civil trials for enemy war prisoners?
Taliban commanders were held at Gitmo
U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL), in a speech to Chicago's Union League Club as reported by the The Chicago Sun-Times said, "All of the major leaders of the Taliban in the south of Afghanistan are former Gitmo releasees -- all of them." Kirk, a U.S. Naval Reserve Intelligence officer,"I would urge the administration to stop all further releases from Guantanamo because otherwise they enter our battle space."
-- Major General Flynn learned of this development during his reserve deployment to Afghanistan over the holiday.
Kirk said NATO Major General Michael T. Flynn told him, "Tell the people back home this: that not only are the people being released from Guantanamo and rejoining Jihad against the United States and our allies in Afghanistan, but the Gitmo detainees are they hardest nut to crack ... their status as someone who was at Gitmo makes them instant leaders. I would urge the administration to stop all further releases from Guantanamo because otherwise they enter our battle space."
Kirk says 61 former Guantanamo prisoners have returned to fighting against U.S. forces. He says they report to Abdul Qayum Zakir, also known as Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul, a 2008 Guantanamo releasee who Kirk called "the principal commander killing our forces in the south of Afghanistan."
What is Obama's real motive for releasing these murderers to murder again?
Gitmo detainees to Illinois prison
Hot Air recently reported that the Obama administration selected a prison complex 150 miles from Chicago to house transferred Gitmo detainees. In the report, a senior Obama administration official was quoted as saying:
"Closing the detention center at Guantanamo is essential to protecting our national security and helping our troops by removing a deadly recruiting tool from the hands of al Qaeda," the official said. "Tomorrow's announcement is an important step forward as we work to achieve our national security objectives."
The administration's attempt to logically justify this asinine scheme is incredulous. If the closing of Gitmo protects our national security and helps our troops, then the sound reasons for it are known only to Obama.
What is Obama's real motive for closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility?
Civil trials for wartime combatants
There is no rational interpretation for how closing Guantanamo will make America safer. But there may be rationale behind Obama's fetish for moving al Qaeda terrorists into the United States. John McCormack, writing for the Weekly Standard, reported on a congressional Republican memo that is circulating the Hill. Here is an excerpt:
President Obama will give Illinois the gift of al Qaeda terrorists from the Guantanamo detention facility. In announcing this decision, there still remains no explication of how closing Guantanamo makes America safer. Quite to the contrary, unnecessarily importing al Qaeda terrorists into the United States 1) gives them more legal protections, including Constitutional rights, than they have now at Guantanamo, 2) increases the chances they may be released into the country, and 3) in exchange for these significant costs, does not appease the Democratic base, and certainly will not appease al Qaeda.
The memo adds:
Importing terrorists from Guantanamo into the United States likely gives them more legal protections than they have now.
Obama's endgame?
Representative Peter Hoekstra, ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, expanded upon this potential disaster in a recent interview by Dan Calabrese:
"The public doesn't really know who these people are. Their efforts to kill Americans did not stop when they arrived at Gitmo, and that will present challenges you don't face with your typical prisoner -- even with a serial killer."
It is entirely possible that Obama's obsessive desire to shut down Guantanamo and move its prisoners to the United States is nothing more than a shrewd political scheme. It is important to note that historically, the fates of enemy combatants have been adjudicated by military justices or civilian-appointed military tribunals.
One of the most dangerous possibilities is that it the terrorists' lawyers can claim habeas corpus, thus giving judges the opportunity to order their release into the United States. According to the Pentagon, recidivism of released detainees reverting back to terrorist ways stands at 20 percent, but is most assuredly much higher.
For reasons known only to himself and his regime, Obama wants these murderers freed. But what they don't want is the political suicide that would ensue if they continue to simply release prisoners, as the recidivism figure represents. It may be that Obama wants the courts to force the issue so that he can claim "I didn't do it and I couldn't stop it." Just what is going on here?
Why free murdering terrorists? Why move them? Why close Gitmo?
Hype and Chains.