Chairman Royce Announces Hearing to Examine Admin’s Plan to Close GITMO

Washington, D.C. – House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) today announced the Committee will convene a hearing entitled “The Administration’s Plan to Close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility: At What Foreign Policy and National Security Cost?” The hearing will begin at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, March 23.

Chairman Royce on the hearing:  “According to the Obama administration’s own figures, more than 30 percent of detainees released from the prison at Guantanamo Bay have returned to terrorist activities.  Those that remain are among the most hardened and highly trained terrorists in the world – and they are committed to killing Americans.  This hearing will allow members to question officials from Departments of State and Defense on the president’s plan to close the prison by bringing some of these terrorists to U.S. soil, and releasing others to countries that are ill-equipped to stop them from returning to the battlefield.”

What:
Hearing: The Administration’s Plan to Close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility: At What Foreign Policy and National Security Cost?

When:
9:30 a.m., Wednesday, March 23

Where:
2172 Rayburn House Office Building

Witnesses:
Mr. Lee Wolosky
Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure
U.S. Department of State

Mr. Paul M. Lewis
Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure
U.S. Department of Defense

***See foreignaffairs.house.gov for updates.

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