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NAF: A Four Percent Guantanamo Recidivism Rate

Via Adam Serwer at Tapped, the New America Foundation has a new report out addressing that slippery, demagoguery-filled claim about Guantanamo detainees

Jul 31, 2020
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ViaAdam Serwer at Tapped, the New America Foundation has a new reportout addressing that slippery, demagoguery-filled claimabout Guantanamo detainees “returning” to the battlefield after the Bush administration released them.
Contrary to recent assertions that one in seven, or 14 percent, of the former prisoners had “returned to the battlefield,” our analysis of Pentagon reports, news stories, and other public records indicates that the number who were confirmed or suspected to be involved in anti-U.S. violence is closer to one in 25, or 4 percent.
Worth remembering: this matches the figure that Defense Secretary Robert Gates gave in congressional testimony in January.
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