Here we go again. President Obama released 5 more Guantánamo Bay detainees last night, all from terrorist utopia Yemen:
While you were sleeping…5 more Gitmo detainees released, despite being considered medium to high risk pic.twitter.com/v5MyRLmNh2
— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) January 15, 2015
New: despite terror threat, US announces transfer of 5 Gitmo detainees; 4 to Oman, 1 to Estonia @foxandfriends http://t.co/mjnfo9PQgt
— heather nauert (@HeatherNauert) January 15, 2015
BREAKING: US says it sent 4 Guantanamo detainees to Yemen's neighbor Oman, 1 to Estonia. Gitmo now has 122 captives. http://t.co/KTFdeUZ1Pf
— Carol Rosenberg (@carolrosenberg) January 15, 2015
122 to go!
But don’t worry … these Yemenis were “low level at best”:
Admin official tells @margbrennan the latest 5 to leave Gitmo are "low level guys at best" http://t.co/3R8nPwvsPA
— Mosheh Oinounou (@Mosheh) January 15, 2015
Hmmm. We were just reading about Yemen. Something to do with Paris, maybe?
Last night’s move comes after Republicans threatened to pass legislation halting further transfers from Guantánamo Bay:
House could take up legislation to block #Guantanamo transfers: http://t.co/gZGI7fgnkN
— The Hill (@thehill) January 15, 2015
9p @FoxNews #KellyFile – Sen @KellyAyotte on how lawmakers plan to stop mass releases/shut down of GITMO in light of terror threat
— Shannon Bream (@ShannonBream) January 14, 2015
Sen. Lindsey Graham was particularly angry at the late-night move by President Obama and offered up this zinger last night on Greta Van Susteren’s show:
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.@GrahamBlog: It is INSANE to let these people out of #GITMO right now @FoxNews
— Greta Van Susteren (@greta) January 15, 2015
And we’ll end it with this:
Although, I note once again. The coward waited to pull all these Gitmo moves until after the election. Not very confident in himself, is he?
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) January 15, 2015
Yep.
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