Military Warns Against Detainee Transfers

Military warns against detainee transfers
The Washington Times
Military intelligence officials have quietly told Congress they advised against transferring 25 of the 60 Guantanamo Bay terror detainees deemed eligible for relocation by the Obama administration, including five who are considered to be highly dangerous and likely to return to the battlefield.
But the Defense Intelligence Agency officials did not raise any formal objections with the administration because they concluded the decision to move prisoners already had been made, according to a letter Sen. Tom Coburn, a member of the intelligence committee, sent Tuesday to Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair.
In the letter, obtained by The Washington Times, the Oklahoma Republican senator questions whether the White House put political considerations ahead of national security.
“The DIA told the committee that DIA has not objected to the release of many rank-and-file members of terrorist organizations ‘due to an explicit understanding that many detainees were destined to be transferred out of GTMO regardless of intelligence-based objections,’ ” Mr. Coburn wrote.
“DIA’s admission that it is not objecting to the release of some members of terrorist organizations due to a belief that policy considerations will outweigh intelligence concerns is highly troubling and highlights the need for the committee to hear from your office about the judgments of all agencies on this matter,” Mr. Coburn wrote.
The DIA did not respond to multiple messages seeking comment. But a spokesman for the DNI, the nation’s top intelligence official who reports directly to the president, said the intelligence community’s job is to provide information and evaluation, and not to step into political debates.
“The intelligence community provides independent, objective intelligence analysis to policymakers without regard to political considerations,” said Michael Birmingham, the spokesman.
Polls show that a majority of Americans are opposed to closing the prison and moving the detainees to the U.S., with some potentially standing trial in U.S. courts, and state offficials have lined up to oppose having any of the detainees moved to their jurisdiction.
The Pentagon in the past has made it clear the Ex-Gitmo detainees turning to terrorism on rise.

Wild Thing’s comment……….
Obama is not going to listen to our military and our military is not able to be bottom line, hard line on this with him. When it comes to oa CIC like Obama it sure is too bad our military can’t just tell him he is full of it and really lay into him how stupid this all is and how he had taken an oath to protect the citizens of this country. I know….. we better not hold our breath.