Closing Guantanamo Bay was practically the “build a border wall” of the Barack Obama presidential campaign. It was a campaign promise made countless times during the campaign trail that Obama never got around to accomplishing due to political roadblocks. In hindsight, Obama says he wishes he closed Gitmo on day one – but thank God he didn’t.
While he didn’t close Gitmo, Obama did greatly reduce the number of prisoners it housed. We know now from a report released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in March that 122 of the Gitmo detainees released by Obama have re-engaged in terrorist activities. In other words, nearly all of them.
122 vicious prisoners, released by the Obama Administration from Gitmo, have returned to the battlefield. Just another terrible decision!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 7, 2017
Did he think they were going to turn from being terrorists to reformed sinners or something?
We know what happens when we clear Gitmo out, so it should make you smile to hear that President Donald Trump plans on loading it back up.
Last Friday, Sessions, his deputy Rod Rosenstein, and U.S. Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Dan Coats visited the Guantánamo, commonly known as Gitmo, facility.
According to Ian Prior, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the purpose of Session’s first trip to Gitmo as AG was to gain “an up-to-date understanding of current operations.”
The trip was also intended to show that Guantánamo remains a “perfectly acceptable” place to house new jihadi suspects as opposed to imprisoning them on U.S. soil and trying them in civilian courts, as former President Barack Obama’s administration had suggested.
“Recent attacks in Europe and elsewhere confirm that the threat to our nation is immediate and real, and it remains essential that we use every lawful tool available to prevent as many attacks as possible,” noted the DOJ spokesman.
H/T Breitbart
This is reassuring news. In order to fully eradicate ISIS and make America safe from Islamic terrorism, we need to use all of the tools at our disposal. And that includes Gitmo.
The real question remains as to why Obama thought that closing Gitmo would’ve been a good idea in the first place.
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