Paris terrorist attack draws questions about Obama policies

 

The Hill  ..." Some Republican lawmakers seized on the violence to question the Obama administration’s efforts to end interrogation tactics dubbed by the president as torture and to close the prison facility at Cuba's Guantánamo Bay."
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 "Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) and others used the Paris attack to question Obama’s pledge to close Gitmo prison.

“ 'What we've heard is that they've gone back to their homes,” Ayotte told Fox News. “So this is a real risk of people who we had captured getting back in the fight against not only our troops, our allies, and that's real American lives at risk.”

"Other lawmakers suggested that the president’s recent executive action on immigration, which will allow deferred deportations and work permits for millions of illegal immigrants, could distract the Department of Homeland Security from its essential counterterrorism responsibilities." ...