3 points1.Think about it this way- a guy who disappeared 5 years ago shows back up and you put him RIGHT BACK in the leadership role (if he ever was in one) and just trust that he hasn't turned or being traced??? Really? no of course not.
2. Olbermann quoted a Seton Hall prof who reviewed this and found that the numbers changed
When W&Co. did try to quantify it the number returning to terror went from 12 to 7 to 5 to "some" to "a few" back up to 25 (must have needed a news cycle killed) now it is 61 or 37 depending on who you ask (see link below)
There appears to be no proof of any of this and the changing numbers smell of BS.
Speaking of BS
3. I will go ahead and highlight the parts we already know or that look
really familiarSome Freed Terrorism Detainees Return to the Fight
Just over 1 in 10 of those released from Guantánamo Bay are said to take up terrorist activities
http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/2009/01/13/some-freed-terrorism-detainees-return-to-the-fight.htmlPosted January 13, 2009
The debate over closing the Guantánamo Bay military detention center in Cuba, long a campaign promise of President-elect Barack Obama, just got more complicated. New Pentagon intelligence asserts that 61 former Guantánamo Bay detainees, or about 11 percent of those who have been released, appear to have returned to involvement in terrorism.
While officials provided few details, the Defense Intelligence Agency numbers highlight the problem of what to do with the roughly 255 remaining detainees. Some of them have been cleared for release, subject to finding a country to take them.
Prior to the new report, the recidivism rate among those who had been held at Guantánamo and released was 7 percent confirmed or suspected of "returning to the fight"—a total of 37 former prisoners. According to the new figures, that number has increased to 11 percent, or 61 total, with 18 confirmed and 43 suspected of involvement in terrorist activities.
Longtime advocates of the closure of Guantánamo dispute the term "recidivism" and note that these
figures could include those who were innocent but were radicalized as a result of mistreatment at the detention center.