{"id":652858,"date":"2010-02-03T09:18:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T14:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=75598"},"modified":"2010-02-03T09:18:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T14:18:39","slug":"brennan%e2%80%99s-own-pushback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/652858","title":{"rendered":"Brennan\u2019s Own Pushback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/75589\/this-threat-warning-brought-to-you-by-the-u-s-law-enforcement-community\">the Obama administration&#8217;s pattern of sticking up for itself on its counterterrorism record<\/a>, add <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/02\/AR2010020203883.html?wprss=rss_nation\/nationalsecurity\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>None of about 48 Guantanamo Bay detainees released or transferred elsewhere by the Obama administration has participated or been suspected of participating in subsequent &#8220;recidivist&#8221; activity, compared with 20 percent of about 540 detainees released by the George W. Bush administration, according to White House counterterrorism chief John O. Brennan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe that significant improvements to the detainee review process have contributed to significant improvements in the results,&#8221; Brennan said in a letter Monday to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).<span id=\"more-75598\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Why not also throw into the mix the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/75421\/obama-puts-money-to-close-gtmo-in-the-afghanistan-war-supplemental\">administration&#8217;s decision to stick the money to close Guantanamo into the Afghanistan war funding<\/a>, a direct dare to the Republicans to filibuster money for the troops in combat.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Mo.), the Senate GOP leader, is giving a terrorism speech at the Heritage Foundation later this morning. Because when the nation&#8217;s security is imperiled, the first words on everyone&#8217;s lips are, &#8220;Get me Mitch McConnell.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Obama administration&#8217;s pattern of sticking up for itself on its counterterrorism record, add this: None of about 48 Guantanamo Bay detainees released or transferred elsewhere by the Obama administration has participated or been suspected of participating in subsequent &#8220;recidivist&#8221; activity, compared with 20 percent of about 540 detainees released by the George W. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2762,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2JPY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}