Pete Hegseth
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This idea that people are being mistreated is absolute garbage.
My job as the Secretary of Defense is not to worry about what the lawyers are arguing. I've got my own set of lawyers that give us the legal parameters, and we are abiding by the law completely.
My job as the Secretary of Defense is not to worry about what the lawyers are arguing. I've got my own set of lawyers that give us the legal parameters, and we are abiding by the law completely.
My job as the Secretary of Defense is not to worry about what the lawyers are arguing. I've got my own set of lawyers that give us the legal parameters, and we are abiding by the law completely.
That article is BS. It is exactly what the blame America first crowd will always do, which is try to characterize our efforts, try to mischaracterize our efforts in order to impugn the motives of the president of the United States and his efforts to secure the American people. This idea that people are being mistreated is absolute garbage.
That article is BS. It is exactly what the blame America first crowd will always do, which is try to characterize our efforts, try to mischaracterize our efforts in order to impugn the motives of the president of the United States and his efforts to secure the American people. This idea that people are being mistreated is absolute garbage.
That article is BS. It is exactly what the blame America first crowd will always do, which is try to characterize our efforts, try to mischaracterize our efforts in order to impugn the motives of the president of the United States and his efforts to secure the American people. This idea that people are being mistreated is absolute garbage.
WE SAW THEM, SAW THEIR LIVING CONDITIONS. AND WHAT DID THEY LOOK LIKE? IT'S BASIC, BUT IT'S EVERY BASIC AMENITY THAT YOU COULD NEED IS PROVIDED. MEDICAL CHECKS, DENTAL CHECKS, HEALTH CARE CHECKS, WELFARE CHECKS, RECREATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES. If you may temporarily have to go to Gitmo, then you're going home.
WE SAW THEM, SAW THEIR LIVING CONDITIONS. AND WHAT DID THEY LOOK LIKE? IT'S BASIC, BUT IT'S EVERY BASIC AMENITY THAT YOU COULD NEED IS PROVIDED. MEDICAL CHECKS, DENTAL CHECKS, HEALTH CARE CHECKS, WELFARE CHECKS, RECREATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES. If you may temporarily have to go to Gitmo, then you're going home.
WE SAW THEM, SAW THEIR LIVING CONDITIONS. AND WHAT DID THEY LOOK LIKE? IT'S BASIC, BUT IT'S EVERY BASIC AMENITY THAT YOU COULD NEED IS PROVIDED. MEDICAL CHECKS, DENTAL CHECKS, HEALTH CARE CHECKS, WELFARE CHECKS, RECREATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES. If you may temporarily have to go to Gitmo, then you're going home.
I say bulls**t to the ACLU. I know what their agenda is. They want to make America look bad. They want to make our Commander-in-Chief, President Trump, look bad. These are top-notch, top-tier facilities run by professionals where they bend over backwards to make sure that medical, dental, healthcare, food, religious accommodations, language accommodations all exist.
I say bulls**t to the ACLU. I know what their agenda is. They want to make America look bad. They want to make our Commander-in-Chief, President Trump, look bad. These are top-notch, top-tier facilities run by professionals where they bend over backwards to make sure that medical, dental, healthcare, food, religious accommodations, language accommodations all exist.
I say bulls**t to the ACLU. I know what their agenda is. They want to make America look bad. They want to make our Commander-in-Chief, President Trump, look bad. These are top-notch, top-tier facilities run by professionals where they bend over backwards to make sure that medical, dental, healthcare, food, religious accommodations, language accommodations all exist.
No, you're not going to have universal freedom at Guantanamo Bay. It's a prison. but they get all the time that they need as a temporary place to send them home. This is about temporarily hosting, holding high profile, high threat individuals who then we send home.
No, you're not going to have universal freedom at Guantanamo Bay. It's a prison. but they get all the time that they need as a temporary place to send them home. This is about temporarily hosting, holding high profile, high threat individuals who then we send home.
No, you're not going to have universal freedom at Guantanamo Bay. It's a prison. but they get all the time that they need as a temporary place to send them home. This is about temporarily hosting, holding high profile, high threat individuals who then we send home.
We're doing a complete review of every single aspect of what happened with the botched withdrawal of Afghanistan and plan to have full accountability. It's one of the first things we announced at the Defense Department for that reason, sir. Certainly, General Raisin Kane, who's on his way in, was not a part of that.
We're doing a complete review of every single aspect of what happened with the botched withdrawal of Afghanistan and plan to have full accountability. It's one of the first things we announced at the Defense Department for that reason, sir. Certainly, General Raisin Kane, who's on his way in, was not a part of that.
We're doing a complete review of every single aspect of what happened with the botched withdrawal of Afghanistan and plan to have full accountability. It's one of the first things we announced at the Defense Department for that reason, sir. Certainly, General Raisin Kane, who's on his way in, was not a part of that.
Instead, he was a part of leading the effort against ISIS by untying the hands of warfighters and finishing the job properly and then bringing our troops home. So we're taking a very different view, obviously, than the previous administration, and there will be full accountability.