Several House committee chairs have sent this letter regarding the Warsame case to President Obama. Their primary concerns are summed up in the first full paragraph of the second page:

We are concerned that the lack of a comprehensive military detention system will continue to have numerous detrimental results, including: incentivizing lethal operations over law of war detention; the loss of critical detainee-provided intelligence; forcing the United States to be wholly dependent on foreign governments to hold and provide access to detainees; and, as in Warsame’s case, bringing terrorists to the United States.

The letter was signed by: Buck McKeon (HASC Chairman), Mike Rogers (Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (Committee on Foreign Affairs Chairwoman), Lamar Smith (Committee on the Judiciary Chairman), and Peter King (Committee on Homeland Security Chairman).

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