Risks
We have already released people who have gone right back to killing again.
These people play the system like a fine violin, knowing damn well that the leftist media and organizations like the ACLU will snap up any damn thing they say, simply out of eagerness to validate their political views.
If you are willing to stipulate that keeping the highest standards of national behavior is worth American lives--and as I have posted above you can indeed make a valid moral case for such a position--fine.
But let's all try and remember that when holding up American casualties as a symbol of our failure.