A three-judge panel for the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has blocked the release of 17 Guantanamo detainees onto United States soil.
If we are going to release them, why not send them back to China and let them deal with them. Anyone want to bet the Chinese are going to take the risk and release them into their general population?
And then there’s this:
The government no longer considers the men enemy combatants.
If this is the case why didn’t the government hand them over to China?