Professor claims DoD inflates Gitmo recidivism

[steven johnson]

Source: Associated Press

The Associated Press
Tue, Jun 9, 2009 (5:48 p.m.)
A New Jersey law professor and his students are alleging that the Defense Department has inflated recidivism rates of former Guantanamo prisoners to sway public opinion against the men.

The professor, Mark Denbeaux of Seton Hall University Law School, said an April report from the Pentagon concludes that one in seven of the 534 prisoners transferred abroad from Guantanamo have returned to terrorism or militant activity _ numbers that he says don't add up.

"DoD has issued 'recidivism' numbers again, and again they are wrong and make no sense either independently or in comparison with the DoD's previous numbers, definitions, names or reports," Denbeaux said in a statement e-mailed Tuesday to The Associated Press.

Denbeaux and his lawyer son, Joshua, have issued reports in the past that also have questioned the Pentagon's previous recidivism data, and have analyzed various Guantanamo transcripts and records.



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[sicksicksick_N_tired]

1. I ask that he and his son continue to hold the DOD to account.

It's been an incredibly abusive department with way too much power and money to abuse.

[snot]

2. k&r'd

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

[struggle4progress]

4. link to Seton Hall School of Law Center for Policy and Research Guantanamo Reports:

http://law.shu.edu/ProgramsCenters/PublicIntGovServ/CSJ/Guantanamo-Reports.cfm

[alstephenson]

5. K & R

[DCKit]

6. Ummm, duh.

Until they give up the names and paperwork (neither of which they have) it's just another case of "Some People Say".

Seven of the 500+ at GITMO are terra-ists, BushCo's* policies made the other 493 - and who can blame them?

[No Elephants]

7. What's amazing? That Gitmo detainees ALL do not engage in terror, whether

you want to say "again" or "perhaps for the first time."