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Hearing Hearing Date: May 24, 2016 2:00 pm 2154 Rayburn HOB

Guantanamo Bay: The Remaining Detainees

Subject
Guantanamo Bay: The Remaining Detainees
Date
May 24, 2016
Time
2:00 pm
Place
2154 Rayburn HOB

PURPOSE:

  • To identify the detainees who remain in Guantanamo and evaluate the danger posed by the detainees who have returned to the battlefield.
  • To assess the implications the closure of the facility would have on the United States’ national security interests.

BACKGROUND:

  • Almost 800 terrorist detainees have been held at Guantanamo Bay since January 2002. Currently, 80 individuals remain detained in Guantanamo.
  • President Obama inherited a population of mostly high-risk detainees when he took office, and has transferred 144 of those detainees.
  • President Obama delivered a plan to Congress to close Guantanamo Bay that entailed transferring most of the remaining detainees to other countries with others transferred to an undetermined facility in the United States.
  • The Director of National Intelligence published a report detailing that 118 of the 676 detainees transferred returned to battle, and another 86 are suspected of having returned to

 

Witnesses and testimonies: Mr. Thomas Joscelyn

Senior Fellow
Foundation for Defense of Democracies

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Commander Kirk Lippold, USN (Ret.)

Commanding Officer of the U.S.S. Cole


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Mr. Jay Alan Liotta

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Detainee Affairs
U.S. Department of Defense

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Mr. Alberto Mora

Senior Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Harvard Kennedy School

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