Royce: 30 Percent of Terrorists Released from Gitmo Go Right Back into the Fight

“We know that those who we hold right now in custody, the remaining 150, are the worst of the worst. Now, we also know that the president is -- he's obsessed with the idea of getting them out of the U.S. custody and transferring them to other countries, but we don’t have an effective system of keeping tabs on them and that is why they keep ending up on the battlefield.

I think this is one of the reasons why Chuck Hagel as our Secretary of Defense was pushed out. As you know, he resisted this idea that we should speed along these combatants and transfer them back to countries like Qatar or Afghanistan where frankly we will have little ability to monitor them. So yes, I am very concerned …

Democrats and Republicans don’t want to see Guantanamo shutdown. We do not want to see those 150 enemy combatants there released. And yet the president is on the other side of this argument, working very diligently in order to try to move the toughest of what we have come up against, over into countries like Qatar.”