Released Gitmo alumni returning to terror at increasing rate

but the Obama administration doesn't want you to know that. Musn't alarm the sheeple when we're getting ready to move the 'worst of the worst' to America's heartland.

From the dishy Steve Hayes at the Weekly Standard:

A total of 31 Guantánamo detainees have been transferred or released since Obama took office.

Among them are several men who acknowledged -receiving training in al Qaeda's notorious "al Farouq" camp. One, Binyam Mohamed, was slated to participate in the next wave of al Qaeda attacks on American soil in 2002. Another, Ahmed Zuhair, was convicted in absentia of participating in terrorist attacks in Bosnia in the late 1990s and almost certainly participated in the assassination of William Jefferson, an American working for the United Nations. Several -others that have been released have admitted to training at a camp at Tora Bora under Abdul Haq, a member of al Qaeda's shura council and a senior al Qaeda leader the Treasury Department has designated as a terrorist. And dozens more are coming.

And it's all according to the Obama administration plan - there's one problem. These detainees are returning to terror in alarming numbers.

The Defense Department has now produced an updated version of Return to the Battlefield. According to four separate sources familiar with the study, the rate of recidivism is increasing. One source said there has been a "spike" in the number of former detainees involved in jihad against the United States and its allies. Another called the increase "significant" and "deeply troubling."

But the Obama administration--despite its -self-congratulatory claims of transparency--is refusing to release it. A Pentagon spokesman tells us the latest report is classified and there are no plans to release it.

Republicans in Congress want it out. On December 18, Senator Kit Bond of Missouri, the ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, sent a letter to Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair asking for release of the report:

"As the administration moves forward with plans to release or transfer detainees from the secure facility at Guantánamo Bay to third countries, it is important for the American people to understand fully the dangers previously-released detainees continue to pose to our national security. Moreover, because the administration has decided to import terrorist detainees into the U.S.--including 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and future residents of Thomson prison--their ultimate fate will be determined by U.S. judges and juries. The American people should be aware of the likely threat these terrorists would pose if a court decided to release any one of them into our nation's communities."

And Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, has also asked, according to his spokesman, that "the recidivism rate be made available to the American people." It has been in the past.

The Bush administration released the first recidivism study in June 2008. President Obama has promised to run "the most transparent administration in history." But when it comes to the DIA recidivist study, it is not even as transparent as its predecessor. Many of the recidivists, moreover, are already known--there is no reason that the government should classify those details that can be sourced to newspaper accounts.

Like so many of the plans the Obama administration have in store for the American people (health care, cap and trade, immigration, etc.), they're hoping we just won't notice.

Perhaps Senator Dianne Feinstein, Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee should be informed that we have noticed. It won't take long - you can cut and paste the letter found here (modify as desired) and use Dinah's old California zip code 94104 to make sure the Senator's constituent services pay attention. Email her here.