Moving quickly to release Chinese Uighur terrorists into the United States, Obama administration officials have - for the second time - overridden objections of federal agencies responsible for national security.
The first time - as I reported on April 20 - the White House overrode the inter-agency panel it created from all the national security agencies to review all the cases of the Guantanamo Bay prisoners. That panel found that the seventeen Uighurs - members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement captured at an al-Queda training camp in Pakistan - were too dangerous to release in the United States.
Now - according to a federal agency source who requested anonymity - the White House has also overridden opposition to the release from both the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.
Beginning yesterday and continuing today, Obama administration officials are briefing key members of Congress on the release, which may happen as early as next week. There apparently has been no decision on where the Uighurs will be turned loose. Earlier reports suggested they could be released in Alexandria, Virginia or Washington, D.C.
