Fully 116 Guantanamo Bay inmates who were released in recent years have returned to their terror battlefields or taken back up with their former terrorist organizations, a new Office of the Director of National Intelligence report found.
Most, if not all, have resumed aggressive stances specifically against the United States and other Western nations, the report said.
Inmate releases began under former President George W. Bush, but President Obama has made closing Gitmo, and returning all the inmates to their homes of record, one of his key campaign and White House promises.
The London Daily Mail reported the ODNI found 116 have been "confirmed of re-engaging" in acts of hostility. Of those, 23 have been taken back into custody and 25 have been confirmed dead, some by U.S. drone strikes. Sixty-eight are still at large, including five that Obama released as part of his vow to close the Cuba base, the Daily Mail reported.
Sixty-nine more are believed to be "re-engaging" in terror activities, the ODNI found.
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On paper, Obama's record of releasing inmates who return to terror looks cleaner than Bush's, but one retired intelligence officer told the Daily Mail that the statistics can be misleading.
"No one gets out of Guantanamo, goes right back to the front lines, and winds up in a CIA report in the same week," the unnamed officials told the Daily Mail. "It can take months or years for them to feel confident enough to start waging jihad again, out in the open, with the U.S. and their host government keeping tabs on them. And ODNI can only put in a public report what it can confirm. That sometimes takes even more years. So it's deceptive."
The source also said, the Daily Mail reported: Wait a bit. Obama's record will soon look like Bush's.
"Are there more Bush transfers back at it than Obama transfers? Probably not," he said. "But the intelligence community has had more than six years to track Bush's. So they know more. Six years from now, Obama's numbers will look pretty much the same. These guys don't rejoin al-Qaida overnight."
Boston Newstime, meanwhile, reported that the top destinations of Gitmo detainees, post-release, include Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.