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Debunking the Pentagon's Gitmo Detainee Recidivism Claims
TalkLeft — You've probably read the claims by the Defense Department that 61 of the released Guantanamo detainees have returned to terrorism. Not so, says a new report from the Seton Hall Law School's Center for Policy and Research (and Law Prof Mark Denbeaux and attorney Joshua Denbeaux). The Denbaux' have previously authored compelling reports on the detainees and represented a few of them. The Seton Hall Center for Policy and Research has issued a report which rebuts and debunks the most recent claim by the Department of ...

Debunking the Pentagon's Gitmo Detainee Recidivism Claims
TalkLeft — You've probably read the claims by the Defense Department that 61 of the released Guantanamo detainees have returned to terrorism. Not so, says a new report from the Seton Hall Law School's Center for Policy and Research (and Law Prof Mark Denbeaux and attorney Joshua Denbeaux). The Denbaux' have previously authored compelling reports on the detainees and represented a few of them. The Seton Hall Center for Policy and Research has issued a report which rebuts and debunks the most recent claim by the Department of ...

Global recession impacts consumer spending, former Guantanamo imate hardest hit
Wizbang — Ten days after we learned that 61 inmates released from the Guantanamo Bay Naval facility have returned to terrorism, the New York Times profiles Said Ali al-Shihri, a former detainee who has risen to be deputy leader of al Qaeda in Yemen. The emergence of a former Guantánamo Bay detainee as the deputy leader of Al Qaeda's Yemeni branch has underscored the potential complications in carrying out the executive order President Obama signed Thursday that the detention center be shut down within a year. On the plus side, the odds of a terrorist attack originating in Yemen ...