If memory serves me correctly, Politifact is run by former editors of the Miami Herald and the Washington Post.
Our ruling
Pirro said that Obama released the current head of ISIS from government custody in 2009. The Defense Department said that the man now known as Baghdadi was released in 2004. The evidence that Baghdadi was still in custody in 2009 appears to be the recollection of an Army colonel who said Baghdadi’s “face is very familiar.”
Even if the colonel is right, Baghdadi was not set free; he was handed over to the Iraqis who released him some time later. But more important, the legal contract between the United States and Iraq that guaranteed that the United States would give up custody of virtually every detainee was signed during the Bush administration. It would have required an extraordinary effort to have held on to Baghdadi and there is no evidence that he was on anyone’s radar screen, assuming that he was in custody at all in 2009.
The U.S.-Iraq agreement drove the release of thousands of detainees in 2009, but Obama had nothing to do with that.
We rate the claim False.
My guess, a political Obama Hack responded to Politifact, since they would know who to ask to get the response they wanted. From the above paragraphs, Abu was held by the Iraqis, may be could be, possibly. Who the hell knows? Our government has no clue.
See my post #12. Your comment is still very relevant.
All of Obama’s vermin LIE, just like he does.