Attorney General Eric Holder to ‘Jihadi John’: ‘We Will Hunt You Down’
HOLDER: “We have shown that it doesn’t matter how long it takes. It doesn’t matter where you are. We’ll find you, we’ll hunt you down, and we will hold you accountable.”
BROWN: “But in a war zone like Syria, can you really do that?”
HOLDER: “Whether it’s through the use of our military, through the use of our law enforcement capacity, if you harm Americans, it is the sworn duty of every person in the executive branch to find you and hold you accountable.”
BROWN: “Do you think that we would go as far as sending in our U.S. troops to find him and hunt him down?”
HOLDER: “I wouldn’t put anything off the table. You know, we will do whatever we have to do to hold people accountable and to protect our fellow citizens.”
BROWN: “Do you think it’s inevitable that we’re going to see an ISIS-related attack on U.S. soil?”
HOLDER: “I don’t think there’s anything inevitable about it, but I certainly think it is certainly something we need to be concerned about.”
BROWN: “So you feel like we’re capable, we have the tools that we need to combat the problem?”
HOLDER: “We have been through hard times. There may be incidents that we’ll have to deal with in the future. We’ll do the best we can to prevent them. But should something happen, we should, you know, put them in the appropriate context.”