Recidivism is a smaller problem for Guantanamo detainees now than under the previous administration, but Republicans insisted on Capitol Hill today that the prison camp must stay open for this reason.
     Preaching at a hearing this afternoon of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Ed Royce, a California Republican who chairs this group, said more than 30 percent of detainees released from Guantanamo Bay, so far, actually returned, or are suspected to have returned, to the battlefield.
     Lee Wolosky, the State Department's special envoy on Guantanamo closure, meanwhile told the committee that new processes put in place by the Obama administration have brought those numbers down markedly. ...

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