Chairman McCaul Statement on Gitmo Transfer To Oman

Statement

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul today released the following statement on the Obama administration's transfer of ten Guantanamo Bay (GITMO) detainees to Oman.

"President Obama's rush to open the jail cells at Guantanamo Bay is reckless, and it puts the American people in danger. This month he will have released close to 20 percent of the facility's population, even though intelligence officials suspect nearly one third of terrorists freed from the facility have returned to the fight. What Commander in Chief would let the enemy go back to the battlefield in the middle of a war? But that's just the problem. The President does not believe we are at war, and in his State of the Union Address he downplayed the danger from ISIS killers "on the back of pickup trucks' and plotting "in apartments or garages.' The President forgets that ISIS alone has now been linked to more than 20 attack plots in our homeland. This should not just be a wake-up call--it should be a call to action. Sadly, the President seems more focused on letting terrorists loose than on rounding them up."

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