[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 78 (Wednesday, May 20, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H5806]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      RELEASE OF UYGHUR DETAINEES

  (Mr. WOLF asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, this morning, the Financial Times reported 
that Attorney General Eric Holder's Guantanamo Bay task force has 
recommended that the President release at least two Uyghur detainees 
into the U.S.
  This planned release comes in spite of ardent objection from the FBI 
and the Department of Homeland Security, who were overruled by Eric 
Holder and the White House.
  These Uyghur detainees are members of the U.S. and the U.N.-listed 
terrorist group, the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement, whose leader, 
Abdul Haq, was listed as a terrorist by Obama's Treasury Department.
  For Eric Holder to do this against the better judgment of the FBI and 
the Department of Homeland Security, and despite Senate Democratic 
Majority Leader Harry Reid's statement yesterday that this Congress 
won't tolerate their release, is unacceptable.
  It flies in the face of the bipartisan congressional opposition to 
the release of trained terrorists into the United States, including 
Republican and Democratic leadership in the House and the Senate. To do 
so in spite of what is taking place, passing in the House, soon in the 
Senate, would be unacceptable.

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