Cutting terrorists loose

The new chairman of the House Armed Services Committee on Thursday said lawmakers should act to prevent President Obama from releasing more prisoners from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

"Once again the President is releasing terrorists into the world with little regard to the likelihood that they will re-enter the fight, or for the risk to our forces already in harm’s way,” Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) said in a statement.

While the administration “may claim that safeguards are in place or that the track record of re-engagement is negligible; but those of us who read intelligence reports regularly have reason to be skeptical,” according to Thornberry, who previously chaired the panel’s emerging threats subcommittee and served on the House Intelligence Committee.

House chairman: Congress must ‘return sanity’ to Gitmo release process