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Now that President Barack Obama has ordered the detention center at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base closed, CBS' David Martin reports that President George Bush had wanted to do the same thing in 2005. "It was his own Vice President who stood in the way," Martin claimed. Even today Dick Cheney calls it "naïve" not to incarcerate suspected terrorists indefinitely without trial. Martin fact-checked Cheney's claim that 61 former inmates of Guantanamo--out of the 530 released so far--have taken up terrorism upon their release. The Defense Intelligence Agency tallies the confirmed number of recidivists at 18, of whom "most have subsequently been killed or captured."
Andrew Tyndall 2/7/09 11:38:05 pm

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