MARC THIESSEN: OBAMA’S CATCH AND RELEASE POLICY…WHERE DO TERRORISTS GO?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/marc-a-thiessen/2011/02/24/ABwzFYN_page.html
Obama’s terrorist ‘catch and release’ policy
Which leaves the obvious question: If Warsame is the first suspect to be transferred to the United States for trial, what happened to the others?
The United States’ top special operations commander told Congress that because the United States has no place to hold captured terrorists we have simply been letting them go. In his testimony, Adm. McRaven used the phrase “in many cases,” which seems to indicate that not only has this happened, but it has happened in numerous instances. Well, exactly how many al-Qaeda terrorists have been taken into U.S. custody on Navy ships and released by the Obama administration? Who are these terrorists? Where were they captured? Who decided to release them? Where were they released? And what has become of them since?
Until now, it was believed that the administration was not capturing senior terrorists alive outside the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq, but simply killing them. Last year, The Post reported that there had been no known high-value detentions by the United States since Obama took office. Now, it appears, we have indeed been capturing such terrorists — and setting them free. If so, this is an outrage. With Adm. McRaven’s testimony, and today’s news, the administration owes the American people — and the United States Congress — some answers, and fast.
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