Wasn’t It Cheney Who Oversaw the Release of All Those Alleged Recidivists?
Why is former Vice President Dick Cheney -- who’s planning to speak at the American Enterprise Institute right after President Obama’s national security speech
Jul 31, 202081.8K Shares1.7M Views
Why is former Vice President Dick Cheney — who’s planning to speak at the American Enterprise Institute right after President Obama’s national security speech today — going around arguing that President Obama is making the United States less safe, when it’s the Bush administration that released the 534 Guantanamo Bay prisoners, 74 of whom the Pentagon now reportedly believes returned to terrorism?
As Spencer pointed outearlier, none of those people were ever actually determined to be terrorists, so “recidivism” would be the wrong word, and as I noted, only five of those 74 appear to be “verifiable.”So we’re left with a policy of indefinite detention, abuse and torture that just about everyone now agrees was a failure — including, apparently the Pentagon — and Cheney is devoting himself to defending it. Couldn’t the Republican party find a more credible spokesperson for their position — maybe even someone who’s actually a current elected official?
Paula M. Graham
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