Hillary Clinton: Released Gitmo Detainees ‘Not a Threat’ to the U.S.

President Obama admitted some of the five Gitmo detainees released in the Bowe Bergdahl deal could go back to targeting America, but in an interview with NBC News’ Cynthia McFadden, Hillary Clinton said that those five Taliban commanders are “not a threat to the United States.”

McFadden brought up the criticism that America is now less safe because these five individuals are now free. Clinton responded, “These five guys are not a threat to the United States. They are a threat to the safety and security of Afghanistan and Pakistan.”

Clinton wrote about the deal in her new book, saying that the White House refused to entertain any notion of releasing those five men without Bergdahl being released back to the United States, while acknowledging that the prospect of such a deal “would be hard to swallow for many Americans.”

Watch the video below, via NBC:

[h/t HotAir]
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