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Ron Johnson: “We haven't been capturing, we haven't been detaining, we…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Sen. Johnson on CNN's Wolf.

Published | Video Starts at 01:13

I'm all for killing terrorists, but it's better if we can capture them and then question them because we get information that's required human intelligence to defeat them. So, unfortunately, President Obama wanted to close Guantanamo Bay. We haven't been capturing, we haven't been detaining, we haven't been questioning to gather that kind of intelligence. So it indicates an awful lot of things. It's good news. We're getting this intelligence that we're able to destroy some of these chemical weapons. (01:13–01:19)

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Asserts that the U.S. has not been capturing, detaining, or questioning terrorists to gather intelligence.

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