Way back in January the government let us know that some of the detainees released from Guantanamo Bay had gone back to fighting on the battlefield. Well, either they were lying, or stupid, because now they’re admitting that many more have gone back to fighting.
Watch below:
The number of detainees freed from the U.S. Guantanamo detention camp who are suspected of “re-engaging” with militant groups overseas increased over the first six months of 2015, the Obama administration said on Thursday.
Figures released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence showed that, as of July this year, of 121 detainees released since President Barack Obama took office in 2009, six were confirmed to have gone back to the battlefield and a further six were suspected of having done so.
Figures released in January had shown that Obama had released a total of 115 Guantanamo inmates, six of whom had returned to the battlefield, but only one of whom was then “suspected of re-engaging.”
Between January and July this year the administration released six detainees.
The data did not identify any individual detainees. The detention facility for terrorism suspects at the U.S. Naval base at Guantanamo, Cuba, which opened after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, now holds 116 prisoners.
Maybe that’s why Obama Chuck Hagel when he suggested they were releasing detainees too quickly.