
Secretary McKeon, can you explain in detail why the administration considers the assessments conducted by the Guantanamo Review Task Force and the Periodic Review Board to be superior to the assessments conducted previously?
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Secretary McKeon, can you explain in detail why the administration considers the assessments conducted by the Guantanamo Review Task Force and the Periodic Review Board to be superior to the assessments conducted previously?

have any of the other 28 detainees (not including the Taliban 5) transferred in 2014 or 2015 reengaged in terrorism?

can a member of al Qaeda or the Taliban play a significant role in terrorist planning and leadership without being in the respective country?

if a released detainee generates terrorist propaganda, this is not technically considered reengagement, correct?

I think that we deserve to know, from the administration when they release someone, are they just releasing them back...

Once they go into an Article 3 court, they're entitled to Miranda...

If we get Ayman al-Zawahiri tomorrow, the head of al-Qaeda, or al-Baghdadi, the head of ISIS, where--what will we do with them?

Fazul's return is like pouring 10,000 Taliban fighters into the battle on the side of the jihad.

I would say, far too insufficient of a time, because you had them on ships because this administration is so adverse to putting anyone in Guantanamo.

I think this is something that is atrocious, that one of our men and women in uniform, or any of our allies or anyone working with us, should ever be forced--when we had someone captured as a prisoner of war, we had them taken from the…

I think the American people deserve to know whether any of the Taliban five have reengaged.

If any of these detainees have been--are suspected or confirmed for having been involved in killing us, our NATO allies, or a coalition servicemember, I--I'm actually surprised you don't know the answer to that.

Do you agree that the facility is lawful and humane?

What worries me is, as we sit here, ... there seems to be no plan for that.

I do not understand why the American people can't be told a basic question.

I think the American people have a right to know----

the significant impact that they are having on this country and our citizens it is a very complex issue