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Today Congressman Brad Wenstrup (OH-2), a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, joined Chairman Devin Nunes and fellow Republicans on the Intelligence Committee in a letter to President Obama objecting to the recent release of 15 detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.

On August 15, 2016, the Obama Administration announced the transfer of 15 Guantanamo Bay detainees to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the largest-ever release in the facility’s history. The letter asserts that the Administration’s release of these “increasingly dangerous terrorists,” several of whom had previously been deemed “too dangerous to transfer” by the President’s Guantanamo Review Task Force, is not justifiable.

“Just last week, Vice President Joe Biden said it was his ‘hope and expectation’ that President Obama will close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility before leaving office in January. It’s this kind of mentality that poses a very real threat to our national security and to the safety of our men and women overseas,” Wenstrup said. “The Obama Administration has never presented a detention policy, including when and who is appropriate for prosecution. Instead, the President is releasing these individuals and taking the risk of replenishing terrorists’ ranks, just to fulfill a misguided campaign promise.” 

You can read the entire letter to the President here.

You can also read more about the recently-released detainees here, courtesy of the House Armed Services Committee.

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Office of Representative Brad Wenstrup

www.Wenstrup.House.gov