"On average, about a third of the people who have been released from Guantanamo we have evidence have re-engaged," Mac Thornberry, House Armed Services Chairman said. "Now, we don't know how many we don't have evidence for."
White House spokesman Josh Earnest gave a different figure during Thursday's daily press briefing.
"Any report about a former Gitmo detainee re-engaging in the fight would be a source of significant concern and something that we would take quite seriously," Earnest said. "Based on what we know so far, more than 90 percent of those who have been transferred from Guantanamo Bay have not re-engaged in the fight."
"Ninety percent is clearly wrong," Thornberry said. "He must be defining it in some particular timeframe that I don't understand. … Secondly, there is a lot of concern by members of Congress that the Taliban Five that were traded for [Sgt. Bowe] Bergdahl may have re-engaged as well. There's a pattern here that these are dangerous folks and if you're trying to get them out of Guantanamo, at any cost, you are increasing the danger to the country."
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