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Ron Johnson: “We stopped capturing, detaining and questioning Islamic…”

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

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Sen. Johnson on CNN's State of the Union

Published | Video Starts at 04:26

… way you actually gather intelligence that's effective is it was over a long period of time and what this administration has done in their quest to close down Guantanamo Bay, We stopped capturing, detaining and questioning Islamic terrorists. Now we're doing some of that. We're starting to capture some of the Islamic terrorists, some of the ISIS operatives. Fortunately, we captured one that was a former Iraqi chemical weapons expert. (04:26–04:31)

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Asserts that the U.S. stopped capturing, detaining, and questioning Islamic terrorists.

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