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.”
Photo: Michael Bonfigli/The Christian Science Monitor.
GPS tag and release.
Dr. Drone is always available for a house call.
Yep, lots of itty bitty chips in hard to get to places.
You’ll find them trolling on tagged.com for an American third or fourth wife … imagine when one of them comes to Doha airport to pick up his new spouse and find out he’s married a cross-dressing ex-SEAL with eight uncut inches
Gee, I don’t know about this. On the one hand I demand that Guantanamo Bay be shut down immediately and all of it’s prisoners be released, but on the other hand I demand that the United States be 100% sure that the prisoners won’t do anything bad ever again, but on the third hand I demand that the United States completely abandon it’s surveillance apparatus. Maybe we can just get a unicorn to solve all of our problems?