Cotton: Terrorists Remaining at Gitmo Are ‘Hardest of the Hardcore’

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Washington Free Beacon:

Americans would be ‘hesitant’ to see prisoners released if they knew reasons for detention.

Morgan Chalfant

June 9, 2016

 

 

Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) said Wednesday that the American people and U.S. allies would be “hesitant” to see prisoners released from Guantanamo Bay if they knew all the facts regarding their detention.

 

Cotton, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told reporters that the Obama administration is preparing to release the “most dangerous” prisoners from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, despite intelligence showing that a large number of ex-detainees have either returned to terrorist activities or are suspected of doing so.

 

“They’re releasing some pretty bad guys, and I suspect … the American people and frankly a lot of our allies would be a little bit hesitant to see them released and see them walking into their country if they knew all the facts supporting the detention of the people at Guantanamo right now,” Cotton told journalists Wednesday morning during an event at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.

 

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Released Gitmo detainees have been killing Americans in Afghanistan
Paul Mirengoff
June 8, 2016

Adam Goldman and Missy Ryan of the Washington Post report that the Obama administration believes approximately 12 detainees released from the prison at Guantanamo Bay have launched attacks against U.S. or allied forces in Afghanistan that have killed about a half-dozen Americans.

 

In March, Paul Lewis, who oversees Guantanamo issues at the Defense Department, admitted to Congress that former Guantanamo inmates are responsible for the deaths of Americans overseas. Since then, the administration has clammed up. However, the Post’s Goldman and Ryan have learned some details from sources.

 

They report that most of the incidents were directed at military personnel. However, the dead also included one American civilian: a female aid worker who died in Afghanistan in 2008.

 

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To Keep Guantanamo Open, Conservative Senators Push to Declassify Detainee Records

 

 

President Barack Obama is running out of time to fulfill his campaign promise to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay and bring some detainees to the United States. As the last months of Obama’s term approach, a new Republican measure could now make that a political impossibility

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An amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act spearheaded by Sens. David Perdue, R-Ga., and Tom Cotton, R-Ark., would require the director of national intelligence to declassify and make public the terror records of former detainees.

 

The more information that’s available, the freshman duo are betting, the less likely the public will be to allow the White House to empty and close the prison.

 

 

“I suspect the American people, and frankly a lot of our allies, would be a little hesitant to see [detainees] released, to see them walking into their country,” Cotton told reporters at The Heritage Foundation Wednesday.

 

http://dailysignal.com/2016/06/08/to-keep-guantanamo-open-conservative-senators-push-to-declassify-detainee-records/

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To Keep Guantanamo Open, Conservative Senators Push to Declassify Detainee Records

 

 

President Barack Obama is running out of time to fulfill his campaign promise to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay and bring some detainees to the United States. As the last months of Obama’s term approach, a new Republican measure could now make that a political impossibility

.

An amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act spearheaded by Sens. David Perdue, R-Ga., and Tom Cotton, R-Ark., would require the director of national intelligence to declassify and make public the terror records of former detainees.

 

The more information that’s available, the freshman duo are betting, the less likely the public will be to allow the White House to empty and close the prison.

 

 

“I suspect the American people, and frankly a lot of our allies, would be a little hesitant to see [detainees] released, to see them walking into their country,” Cotton told reporters at The Heritage Foundation Wednesday.

 

http://dailysignal.com/2016/06/08/to-keep-guantanamo-open-conservative-senators-push-to-declassify-detainee-records/

 

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