Last week, the Obama administration announced that the remaining Chinese Uighurs held at Guantanamo will be accepted by the island nation of Palau. 
 
The announcement has brought Newt Gingrich’s May 15 op-ed “Let’s NOT Meet the Uighurs” back into focus.  You can read it here. 
 
A lot of disinformation and spin is being hurled about regarding the refusal to release these soon to be former detainees into the United States.  including the notion that the decision to not release any of the Uighur detainees into the United States is somehow the result of a Chinese propaganda and counterintelligence campaign.  Some have even questioned the source of the information Newt was using when he wrote the op-ed above.
 
There is no question that the human rights record of China is deplorable.  However, the question at hand is not China’s treatment of the Uighur population at large.  The question is whether the United States should release any of these Uighur detainees into the United States.  

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