Did 122 Guantanamo prisoners released by Obama return to the battlefield? A recent tweet by Donald Trump says: > 122 vicious prisoners, released by the Obama Administration from Gitmo, have returned to the battlefield. Just another terrible decision! According to a Business Insider article, the president was probably inspired by this Fox News report. However, that report does not say that the prisoners were released under Obama. Did 122 Guantanamo prisoners released under the Obama administration go on to return to fight against the USA?

Snopes checked these numbers, using a report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence:

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The majority of prisoners were released under Bush. Only a small percentage of those released under Obama returned to the battlefield (9 are confirmed, and another 11 are suspected).

The new 2017 version of the report has also been released this month, and it corrects the number of confirmed re-engagements under Obama from 9 to 8. The original source of the wrong 122 claim is the report from 2016 though.