White House: No matter what, we're sending Gitmo prisoners back to Yemen

washingtonexaminer.com ^ | Jan. 3, 2010 | Byron York

[Free ThinkerNY]

As Susan notes below, a bipartisan group of lawmakers is urging the Obama White House not to go forward with plans to send a number of Yemeni terrorists now being held in the Guantanamo Bay detention facility back to their home country. But the Obama White House insists it will continue to send those Gitmo inmates to Yemen -- a country now recognized as a hotbed of terrorism so dangerous that the U.S. has decided to close its embassy there.

On Fox News Sunday, top White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan said the administration "absolutely" intends to keep sending Guantanamo prisoners to Yemen. The administration has sent seven detainees to the country, Brennan said, with six of those sent in December. "Several of those detainees were put into Yemeni custody right away," Brennan said. He did not elaborate on how many is "several" or where the other Guantanamo inmates sent to Yemen might be today. But he said the U.S. has faith in Yemen to handle the situation. "We've had close dialogue with the Yemeni government about the expectations that we have as far as what they're supposed to do when these detainees go back," Brennan said.

Given that, host Chris Wallace asked, "You are going to consider on a case-by-case basis sending more Yemenis back to Yemen?"

"Absolutely," said Brennan.

[Outlaw Woman]

LOL...gotchya

[tina07]

Stupid is as stupid does, and they like to do it over and over and over...

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[Allegra]

How I detest this administration.

[thecabal]

Finally, someone gets it. “Stupid” has nothing to do with this.

[mojitojoe]

[Candor7]

Send them to Yemen so they can recconnect with Al Qaeda,pick up a few shekels, go to Ghana, get a one way ticket to Detroit via Amsterdam, so they can spread their guts interming;ed with thise of 300 other air craft passengers to be spread over an American city near you.

That should bring up Obama's poll ratings pronto!

[ravingnutter]

From DU:

Prisoners of an illegal war. They should all be compensated and set free.

[hal ogen]

Why not take all the Yemeni terrorists we have captured and make them sort of a praetorian guard for nobama in the White House? That way they can be watched, occupied and compensated all in one fell swoop.

[TexasCajun]

"Honey, Even after the Winter Holiday terrorist attack, I'm still going to send some of the terrorist at Gitmo back to Yemen. ...Fistbump!"

[surfer]

‘I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.’

[Don Corleone]

More TREASON by an administration already up to its over sized ears in treasons acts.

[dragnet2]

All the Americans that fly and use airports, could stop this political policy/behavior today if they wanted to.

Just stop flying on airplanes.

[Art in Idaho]

Okay, so the Gitmo guys are going back to Yemen and Abdulmutallab has lawyered up and is quiet as a church mouse. So, no intelligence from him because he will not be waterboarded or tortured in the old ways. Sooo, then when the guys from Yemen - the guys Abdulmutallab knows about and got orders from - when those + the Gitmo guys kill just One of our Children, then I say the 200 million man/woman March on Washington D.C. begins!

[Yaelle]

"OK, now remember, you are on your HONOR not to go back to 'man-made incidents!' Use that Satphone we gave you if you ever feel tempted, and Dr. Phil will pick up the phone and talk you through it."