Obama Official: Freed Gitmo Terrorists Killed Americans
American lives don't matter
March 23, 2016
Daniel Greenfield
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Obama insists on closing Gitmo and freeing as many Islamic terrorists as he can before he leaves office.
Terrorists have been freed despite having high risk ratings. They have been freed over the resistance of Obama's own defense secretaries, one of whom was fired for refusing to speed up the release of terrorists. They have been freed despite the disturbing rate of recidivism. They will go on being freed even though they have killed Americans.
Americans have been killed by prisoners released from the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a senior Obama administration official told lawmakers Wednesday, triggering sharp criticism from Republicans opposed to shuttering the facility.
Testifying before the GOP-led House Foreign Affairs Committee, Paul Lewis, the Defense Department's special envoy for the closure of the detention center, declined to provide details and did not say whether the incidents occurred before or after President Barack Obama took office in January 2009.
"What I can tell you is unfortunately there have been Americans that have died because of (Guantanamo) detainees," Lewis said during an exchange with Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif.
"When anybody dies it is tragedy. We don't want anybody to die because we transfer detainees," Lewis said. "However, it's the best judgment and the considered judgment of this administration and the previous administration that ... we should close" the Guantanamo detention center.
Sure.
Freeing Gitmo terrorists kills Americans. Let's free more Gitmo terrorists. This is what the treasonous administration has come down to. This is a blatant admission that American lives don't matter.
Senator Mark Kirk has an intriguing proposal for throwing a monkey wrench in Obama's plans.
Additionally, I have suggested that Congress cut foreign aid if a country accepts a detainee transferred from Gitmo and the detainee escapes custody or re-engages in terrorism. The administration recently transferred two Gitmo detainees to Ghana, a country with a notoriously mismanaged prison system, and I have called for cuts to foreign aid of $10 million per detainee if Ghana is unable to hold and monitor the detainees transferred there and ensure they do not re-engage in terrorist activities.