WH Official: 'We Have Ways' To Keep Tabs On Released Gitmo Detainees
Source: TPM
DYLAN SCOTT JUNE 6, 2014, 10:37 AM EDT
The White House has taken heat over the national security risks of releasing members of the Taliban being held at Guantanamo Bay in exchange for captive Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, but a top adviser to President Obama assured reporters on Friday that the administration will be watching them.
The five detainees exchanged for Bergdahl are banned from leaving Qatar for one year. John Podesta, counselor to the president, told reporters at a breakfast held by the Christian Science Monitor in Washington that the U.S. had received "assurances from the Qataris" that the Taliban members would be diligently monitored.
But he also implied the U.S. national security apparatus would be doing surveillance of its own. The administration had concluded, Podesta said, that "the threat posed by the detainees could be significantly mitigated."
"As you know, we have a lot of ways of knowing what people are doing," he said Friday when asked if there would be independent U.S. monitoring aside from the Qataris. "I think it's fair to say that we'll keep an eye on them."
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olddad56
(5,732 posts)bananas
(27,509 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Someone actually pulled that one out of their hat this week in conversation. Everyone in the world is on Obamacare now and we're going broke paying for healthcare for the entire world.
Also there are so many POC moving here from other nations that there is a dearth of white people too, he said, but that's for another day. He was able to recite every RW meme perfectly and presented them in a respectful tone as I gently refuted each one but I'm sure he felt he'd made a convert.
Add my bagger relation's comments years ago who told me what a great idea microchipping all elderly and disabled would be to reduce costs and lower taxes to save her Social Security and Medicare! Freedumb!!!
Seriously, I doubt they'd chip them as the guys would likely chew their arms off if they gave them a chip. Or if they thought they got nanobots with a shot. I'm bringing up that one, not you.
Think they'd believe that nanobots, a short step above a RFID chip, are the Mark of the Beast?
humbled_opinion
(4,423 posts)Drones can get them with pinpoint accuracy... Wonder what the GOP will say after Obama sends the drones and takes out all Taliban leadership?
freshwest
(53,661 posts)TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)liberal N proud
(60,352 posts)We have our ways?
I understand the message but the delivery sounds totalitarian.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Sure, they're Finnish and not German, and it's not Ragnarök yet, but we'll get there!
Nitram
(22,951 posts)...into detainees. Wouldn't be hard to do.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Guess Republicans wanted them to stay force fed, water boarded in Gitmo forever- so the rage against America would continue forever.
I bet they get invited to this years Womad! Republicans should move-on and start to focus on Americans for once!!
wandy
(3,539 posts)hughee99
(16,113 posts)"As you know, we have a lot of ways of knowing what people are doing"
Yes, we all know this. Some people find it disturbing.
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)How long before they start doing that here?