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March 27, 2009

Welfare for Gitmo detainees? (Updated)

Topics: Political News and commentaries
We have from the Associated Press (via The Weekly Standard), a partial account of DNI Dennis Blair's first press conference today (emphasis mine):

During his news conference, Blair also said the Obama administration is still wrestling with what to do with the remaining 240 detainees at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, which the president has ordered closed.

Some of the detainees, deemed non-threatening, may be released into the United States as free men, Blair confirmed.

That would happen when they can't be returned to their home countries, because the governments either won't take them or the U.S. fears they will be abused or tortured. That is the case with 17 Uighers (WEE'-gurz), Chinese Muslim separatists who were cleared for release from the jail long ago. The U.S. can't find a country willing to take them, and it will not turn them over to China.

Blair said the former prisoners would have get some sort of assistance to start their new lives in the United States.

"We can't put them out on the street," he said.

In other words, "detainees" (read as jihadists) that are considered so dangerous that their home country won't take them or that are considered such a threat by their home country that they would likely be subjected to torture - will be released to roam freely here in the U.S.

The Weekly Standard has four short very pertinent questions/comments on Blair's comments and the Obama administration's plans which it says have been reached through "reached through a combination of specious reasoning and ignorance." (emphasis mine)

Plans and policies that have been arrived at through a "combination of specious reasoning and ignorance" appears to be the hallmark of the Obama administration thus far.

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