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"Johnson also addressed the need for a program to monitor detainees even after they are transferred from Guantanamo Bay to accepting nations. He stressed the concern that terrorists and enemy combatants might return to the battlefield.

“It’s not as simple as, ‘Oh X-Y-Z country is willing to take the detainee back,” he said. “There needs to be in place an adequate rehabilitation program to monitor in that accepting nation … [so] that we minimize to the fullest extent possible any acts of recidivism for those who are transferred or released.”

“The safety of the American people is the utmost concern,” he continued. “So we believe strongly that rehabilitation programs are something that we should encourage, promote. It’s something we’re very focused on.""

2 posted on 07/08/2009 12:04:25 AM PDT by Cindy
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Echoing President Barack Obama’s recent call to reform the Military Commissions Act of 2006, General Counsel Jeh C. Johnson told the Senate Armed Services Committee that he welcomes the opportunity to help change military commissions into a more viable forum.

...the Jackie Childs of the Pentagon.

3 posted on 07/08/2009 1:09:49 AM PDT by Roccus (The Capitol, the White House, the Court House...........America's Axis of Evil)
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