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McCaul on the President's Release of GITMO Detainess

Statement

Date: Aug. 16, 2016
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: National Security Criminal Justice

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) issued the following statement in response to the Obama Administration's release of 15 detainees from the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay (GTMO):

Chairman McCaul: "President Obama is more focused on releasing hardened terrorists than capturing new ones--a reckless policy that is putting America and the West at risk. At least a third of the inmates released from GTMO are suspected of returning to the fight. Even more shocking, the Administration has admitted that Americans have been killed by these released detainees. And now the President is giving more terrorists a one-way ticket back to the battlefield. We are a nation at war, and our commander-in-chief shouldn't be handing back operatives to the other side."


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