Reply #35: NYT article - Rummy cites releases from Gitmo but ignores how many DID return (became) to terrorism

[underpants]

The former defense secretary did have some positive words for Mr. Obama on CNN, primarily concerning those Bush-era national security policies the president has not dismantled — specifically, indefinite detention, military commissions and the Guantanamo Bay prison. In his memoir, Mr. Rumsfeld noted that the Bush administration released more than 500 detainees from Guantanamo Bay. Republicans have criticized Mr. Obama for releasing far fewer than that.

“I knew we ran the risk of mistakenly releasing some people who might attack us in the future, just as is the case in our civilian prison system, but I saw this as a risk that we had to take,” Mr. Rumsfeld said in his book.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/rumsfeld-implies-that-obama-apologizes-for-u-s/?hp

Document: Up to 25% of freed Gitmo detainees return to terrorism

A declassified document made public Tuesday showed that up to 25% of all former detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, subsequently engaged in terrorism or insurgency, but the percentage is much lower for those transferred under the Obama administration.

http://articles.cnn.com/2010-12-07/us/guantanamo.detainees_1_detainees-guantanamo-bay-gtmo?_s=PM:US