No Reform Too Absurd for Obama
Paul Sperry
The New York Post
6/7/2014
If you thought President Obama’s release of five top Taliban commanders in exchange for POW Bowe Bergdahl was bad, wait until you see what his Gitmo parole board plans.
Desperate to empty the Guantanamo Bay prison by the end of his term, Obama quietly is giving “get out of jail free” cards for the flimsiest of excuses.
One al Qaeda suspect captured in Afghanistan is considered reformed because he took up yoga and read a biography of the Dalai Lama. Another is eligible for release because of his “positive attitude.”
And one longtime detainee, a former bodyguard for Osama bin Laden, is now harmless because he’s going to start a “milk and honey farm.”
The Periodic Review Board already helped clear 78 of the remaining 149 prisoners for release, documents show, and has scheduled more hearings for this summer…
…Obama’s terrorist parole board was established in 2011. He appoints its members — officials from the Justice Department, Pentagon, State Department and Homeland Security — without a congressional confirmation process. It is secretive and lacking in accountability…
The complete article is at The NY Post.
Related: Judy Miller on Bergdahl Swap: “Living Proof You Can Confront The Great Satan And Win” (video)
MARIA BARTIROMO, HOST: Do they go back after a year on Qatar and come back and plan more terrorist attacks against America?
JUDITH MILLER: Well, I think the statistics would seem to indicate there’s a great risk exactly that is going to happen. As of January 2014 we had 29 percent of the 614 Gitmo detainees who had been released who went back to the fight, so that’s not very good. And many of them were taken by countries that had promised, as has Qatar, that they will look after them and make sure they don’t return to the fight.
So that’s the problem. That’s the real tradeoff, even if they don’t go pick up an RPG, they are there as inspirers, as motivators and as living proof that you can confront the ‘Great Satan’ and win…
Update: “America Cannot Do A Damn Thing” and Valerie Jarrett’s Nuclear Iran
…Once this phase is complete, the balance of power in the Middle East, and thus, the world, will be forever altered, and the potential for instability beyond anything seen in generations, could ensue.
It’s all going according to plan.
Jarrett’s plan.
