Joe is going to try wandering this path again. This is definitely fodder for those of us that think this administration is really being run by Barack in the background. This was one of the biggest objectives of the Obama administration. It ultimately failed, largely due to domestic pressure.

Finding the pressure points was pretty easy though.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released updated figures on former Guantanamo Bay detainees suspected or confirmed of re-engaging with terrorism Tuesday, showing a small shift in the figures since September.

According to the updated data released Tuesday, the intelligence community has confirmed that a total of 121 former detainees have re-engaged in terrorism.

Under the Geneva Conventions wartime prisoners can be held until the end of hostilities. The problem here is that the War on Terror is not really confined to a nation state. So defining the end of hostilities  when terrorist acts occur sporadically, all over the place, is fairly tough. Also, the conventions really only apply to countries that have signed onto them. We are back again to the problem of terrorists not have a nation, or a government that has the ability to enforce the rules.

Because of that ambiguity, and others, these people are kept away from the US mainland.  The fear is that if they end up in the US they will be granted constitutional rights. There are a ton of judges who claim that just being on US soil grants constitutional rights. I’m not a lawyer so I will not opine on that front.

What I will say is that the guys that are locked up, represent something. To us they mostly represent evil. To Al Qaeda or ISIS or a lot of other jihadi wannabes, they are martyrs that have been held by the Great Satan of America. That provides them with all kind of street cred. They can use that to their advantage in all kinds of ways. They represent a danger much larger than themselves.

If Biden’s early actions are any indication of what is to come, he will be told to sign another executive order that directs this. He seems to have no idea that what he is doing is immensely unpopular. The powers behind the puppet will make it so though. The best part for them, is that Joe gets all of the blame.