The following article by Charlie Savage was posted on the New York Times March 7, 2017:
President Trump said on Tuesday on Twitter that “122 vicious prisoners, released by the Obama Administration from Gitmo, have returned to the battlefield. Just another terrible decision!”
Is that true?
No, what Mr. Trump wrote is false.
What is true?
According to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, of the 714 former Guantánamo Bay detainees who were transferred to other countries by Jan. 15, 2017 — dating back to when the Bush administration opened the prison in Cuba in January 2002 — 121 are “confirmed” to have engaged in militant activity after their release. Continue reading “Fact-Check: Trump Is Wrong About Guantánamo Detainees”