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Obama Just Let 15 ‘HIGH RISK’ Detainee’s Out Of Gitmo

In fact, the Bush administration released more than twice as many detainees from Guantanamo as has the Obama White House.

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All 15 of the detainee’s released by President Obama on Saturday were deemed “High” risk in Department of Defense reviews.

N.C. Congressman Richard Hudson (R-08) accused President Obama of “recklessness” after US officials said on Monday that 15 inmates from the Guantanamo prison were transferred to the United Arab Emirates.

According to the pentagon, the transfer of 12 Yemeni nationals and three Afghans brings the total number of prisoners down to 61 at the United States facility in Cuba.

Shah said keeping Guantanamo open gave cover to foreign governments to ignore human rights.

The remaining detainees “will no doubt” return to the fight once released, she said, noting that the Defense Department told her that 93 percent of the detainees still at Guantanamo as of late previous year were high risk for re-engagement in terrorism. By contrast, President Bush released roughly two-thirds of Guantanamo detainees before Obama was ever sworn in. The latest transfers bring the remaining population of the detention center down to 61. Dhiab was released to Uruguay by the Obama administration in 2014. It has not strengthened our national security; it has damaged it. … She said the 15 prisoners released Monday “are among the worst terrorists who could jeopardize our national security and the lives of our troops”.

Her office described three of them – Abdel Qadir al-Mudafari, Mahmud Abd Al Aziz al-Mujahid and Majid Mahmud Abdu Ahmed – as former bin Laden bodyguards. Given that some of them were subjected to “enhanced interrogation techniques”, or that they have been held at Guantanamo outside of even American justice for many years, it would not be surprising if that were the case. The Board has representatives from six USA government agencies.

Some groups dispute the risk some of the inmates truly pose.

According to Amnesty, one of the Afghans released to the UAE alleged that he was “tortured and subjected to other cruel treatment” while in US military custody. He had been accused of hiding and storing mines to be used against USA forces in Afghanistan. In clearing him for transfer, the review board said he hasn’t expressed any anti-US sentiment or intent to re-engage in militant activities. A Pentagon profile from Sept 2015 said he expressed dislike of the United States, which they identified as “an emotion that probably is motivated more by frustration over his continuing detention than by a commitment to global jihad”.

The plan included transferring detainees to other countries, and imprisoning those who could not be moved to existing facilities in South Carolina, Kansas and Colorado or at new prisons at military bases.

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Inhofe, who has led efforts to prevent the transfer of detainees to facilities in the United States, has introduced legislation to force the administration to reveal more details to the public about detainees transferred to other countries.

In President Obama's attempt to close Guantanamo Bay before he leaves the White House the prison has now released fifteen prisoners and sent them to the United Arab Emirates where other detainees have been sent