Lawmakers blast ‘false assurances’ from admin officials over Gitmo terrorists

Published July 8, 2016 10:35am ET



Obama officials misled Congress over the standards applied to terrorist prisoners who are transferred from Guantanamo Bay to other countries, lawmakers charged on Thursday.

Two Obama administration officials were called before the House Foreign Affairs Committee over the transfers and their past statements of the transfers, which are supposed to ensure the released prisoners no longer pose a threat to the U.S.

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