Included in several high-profile cases he is currently investigating are the torture claims of former Guant?mo Bay detainees, criminal activity by Colombia's FARC rebel group and corruption cases in Spain.
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Wayne S. Smith, a former American diplomat in Havana who now works at the Center for International Policy, said in an interview on Tuesday that the Cuban government saw the detainee's surreptitious activity as a continuation of the Bush administration's efforts to undermine the Cuban leadership.
"Although I share concerns about the re-engagement of any detainee in terrorist activities," wrote Carter, "taking into considerations the security assurances that would be provided by the United Kingdom, I determined that transferring Aamer to the United Kingdom was in the national security interest of the United States.
Any evaluation of the accuracy of the executive branch's determination that a person is an enemy combatant, for example, would require courts to consider, first, what activities the detainee was engaged in during the period leading up to his seizure and, second, whether those activities rendered him a combatant..
Add to this the latest reports that one out of five former detainees returns to terrorist activity.
An administration official speaking on condition of anonymity told VICE News that the interagency process "thoroughly reviews all potential transfers, including information about possible detainee reengagement in terrorist activities".
The officials reportedly stressed that Kuwait was willing to abide by American security requirements - despite the fact that it had "not received any information clearly and legally implicating any of the four detainees in terror activities".
Two staff members were fired for engaging in sexual activity with a detainee, while a third was sacked for failing to act when the detainee reported the incident, it emerged last year.
Two staff were fired for engaging in sexual activity with a detainee in 2013 and a third employee was dismissed for failing to take any action when the women reported the two men after claims were made in the Observer.
Under the Senate bill, the defense secretary would instead need find only that steps have been taken to substantially mitigate any risk that a released detainee would engage in terrorist activity after being freed and that such a transfer was in the national security interests of the United States – the same more flexible standard he must meet under current law to issue a waiver.
