McCaul Slams Biden's Gitmo Prisoner Transfer

WASHINGTON – U.S. Congressman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) — chairman emeritus of the House Homeland Security and Foreign Affairs Committees — released the following statement on President Biden's transfer of 11 detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Oman.

"President Biden's transfer of 11 Gitmo prisoners is highly reckless, dangerously naive, and — in the wake of last week’s horrific New Orleans attack — indefensible. His administration should be devoting every available resource to rooting out terrorism; instead, it has exhibited a baffling pattern of leniency toward the world’s most hardened criminal terrorists.

“I will never forget my chilling experience of visiting Gitmo and seeing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in his cell. These monsters deserve no reprieve, and the American people deserve assurance they will be kept in Gitmo's secure environment, where they can never harm anyone ever again.”

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