A bailout for the potential terrorist next door?

While everyone appeared to be in full back-slapping, self-gratifying, self-congratulatory mode over the “closing” of Club Gitmo, the harsh realities of what to actually do with the detainees has just now started to sink-in.

We commented previously that the options were limited: detain them here stateside, ship them to countries willing to take them, shoot them or one that we did not, silly us, previously consider…. release them into general population. Not that general population but our general population.

During an interview with reporters, Holder was asked whether members of a group of Uighurs at the U.S. military detention facility in Cuba could be released on American soil.

"I don't know. We're trying to come up with places for them," Holder said.
He added later: "The possibility exists."

…because nothing succeeds like painting yourself into a corner with hastily-made politically-popular decision.

But it gets better… a whole lot better.

The Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair had this to say in response to a question regarding releasing the Uighurs into the U.S.

If we are to release them in the United States, you can't just sort of, as you said, put them on the street and there, but we need some sort of assistance to them to start a new life and not return to some of the conditions that may have inspired them in the first place. So all that is a work in progress. It's under intense timeline because a year is not a very long time to go through that complexity. So all that's in process.

We’re pleased to see that the Obama Administration appears supremely intent on delivering on a campaign promise regardless of the consequences.

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