Later Terror Link Cited for 1 in 7 Freed Detainees

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/us/politics/21gitmo.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=rejoin%20the%20fight%20after%20release&st=cse

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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:30 AM
Subject: re: Later Terror Link Cited for 1 in 7 Freed Detainees
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To the Editor:

     The account of recidivism among those released from Guantanamo is notable more for what it lacks than for what it reveals.   Without names, no one can check the numbers. More important, it lacks a control group.  If the U.S. had detained and abused a group of certifiably innocent young men, I would expect most of them to bear the U.S. a grudge after they were released. How many of these would seek some sort of retribution? Fourteen percent seems entirely likely. That's an indictment of our behavior more than of theirs.

Barry Levine