Obama's List of Gitmo Prisoners He Will Let Go Include 34 That More Than Likely Will Kill Americans As Soon As They Get Out

Foreign policy...Obama style.  Yep, Barack Hussein Obama, in his infinite wisdom and after the revelation that the U.S. Ambassador to Libya was just murdered by a Gitmo releasee, has offered up a list of Muslim terrorists in Gitmo to be set free and of that list, 34 have been determined to be "high risk" ....meaning they will probably spill American blood within the next year, in my estimation.

Four More Years?

The story comes from The Long War Journal.

34 'high risk' Guantanamo detainees approved for transfer

The Obama administration has released a list of 55 Guantanamo detainees who were approved for transfer by the Guantanamo Bay Review Task Force. The task force, which was authorized by President Obama as one of his first acts in office, completed its work in January 2010. The Obama administration has worked to resettle many of the detainees the task force approved for transfer, but the detainees on the newly-disclosed list remain at Guantanamo.

Before the task force was authorized in January 2009, Joint Task Force Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO) had previously assessed all of the detainees held in Cuba. JTF-GTMO's threat assessments for 760 current and former detainees have been leaked online. (Approximately 167 detainees remain in custody at this time.)

The Long War Journal has matched those threat assessments to the 55 detainees on the task force's list.

JTF-GTMO determined that 34 of the 55 detainees on the newly-released list were "high risk(s)" who are "likely to pose a threat to the US, its interests, and allies" if freed from custody. One detainee was deemed a "medium to high risk."

JTF-GTMO assessed that 19 of the 55 detainees are "medium risk(s)" who "may pose a threat to the US, its interests, and allies."

Just one of the 55 detainees was assessed to be a "low risk, due to his medical condition."

Ultimately, the task force's recommendations differed from JTF-GTMO's in at least 37 of the 55 cases. JTF-GTMO recommended that all 34 "high risk" detainees and 3 "medium risk" detainees remain in the Defense Department's custody, whereas the task force approved them for transfer.

Prior to the task force's creation, JTF-GTMO also disagreed with civilian authorities in the Bush administration on some transfer decisions. (JTF-GTMO made recommendations on transfers to authorities in the Defense Department, who then made decisions on how to treat individual cases.)

Of the 55 detainees on the list, 24 are Yemeni. The Obama administration suspended transfers to Yemen after the attempted Christmas Day 2009 attack on a Detroit-bound airliner. That plot was traced back to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), a terrorist organization that is staffed by a significant number of ex-Gitmo detainees.

A "high risk" population

That a majority of the detainees on the newly-released list were once determined to be "high risk" is not surprising given how the Guantanamo population evolved over time.

The Long War Journal has matched the leaked JTF-GTMO threat assessments to 760 former and current Guantanamo detainees. (Threat assessments are not available for 19 other detainees.) The pie chart below represents this total population of detainees previously or currently held at Guantanamo.

JTF-GTMO determined that 328 detainees (43.2 percent) were "high risk"; 278 (36.6 percent) were "medium risk"; and 154 (20.3 percent) were "low risk."