State Department on Gitmo Recidivism Rate: “We actually expected this to happen”

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A State Department spokesman said today that the Obama administration expected that many detainees released or transferred from Guantanamo Bay would return to jihad. The spokesman, P. J. Crowley, made the comments in response to questions about a new report from the Director of National Intelligence that shows the rate of recidivism among former Guantanamo detainees has doubled over the last two years.

Crowley was asked about the numbers this morning in an interview with Martha MacCallum on Fox News:

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