By the Numbers: Gitmo Boys Staying Bad

By Bridget Johnson 8:13 AM on March 12, 2012

Pushing back against a Director of National Intelligence report that put the confirmed recidivism rate for Gitmo detainees at 16 percent, the Senate Republican Policy Committee put out a chart last week to show that recidivism continues to rise for those released from the prison camp for terror suspects.

The Pentagon noted that its numbers didn’t include those suspected of returning to terrorist activity, as the GOP includes.

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Bridget Johnson is a veteran journalist whose news articles and analyses have run in dozens of news outlets across the globe. Bridget first came to Washington to be online editor at The Hill, where she wrote The World from The Hill column on foreign policy. Previously she was an opinion writer and editorial board member at the Rocky Mountain News and nation/world news columnist at the Los Angeles Daily News.

Bridget is a Senior Fellow specializing in terrorism analysis at the Haym Salomon Center. She is a Senior Risk Analyst for Gate 15, a homeland security risk management firm in the Beltway. She is an NPR contributor and has contributed to USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, National Review Online, Politico, New York Daily News, The Jerusalem Post, The Hill, New York Observer, Washington Times, RealClearWorld and more, and has myriad television and radio credits including Al-Jazeera and SiriusXM. Bridget is Washington Editor for PJ Media.

By the Numbers: Gitmo Boys Staying Bad

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