President Joe Biden and his administration are taking credit for a deal with Hamas terrorists for hostage releases, but it cannot even definitively say whether the estimated 10 American hostages are even alive, Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, lamented Sunday.
“I’m concerned that the Biden administration didn’t make it a condition of this deal that Americans be in the first hostages that are released, especially since American aid is going into Gaza right now, into northern Gaza as part of the conditions that Hamas had,” Turner, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“I think, you know, when the administration says they know every detail and then tell you that they don’t even know if they’re alive, that is certainly concerning.”
Dealing with terrorists in a war is difficult, but the Biden administration needs to be more forthcoming to the American people about the intelligence it has, particularly since American dollars are funding the humanitarian causes in Gaza.
“We’re not even sure that Hamas has all of the hostages,” Turner continued. “There are other radical groups within Gaza that might have possession of some of these hostages. We’re not sure which ones are alive, where their bodies may be, in either Gaza or where Hamas has held them.
“People who have been told that their relatives are deceased are now finding they’re alive. People who believe they are alive may found out tragic news.”
Eric Mack | editorial.mack@newsmax.com
Eric Mack has been a writer and editor at Newsmax since 2016. He is a 1998 Syracuse University journalism graduate and a New York Press Association award-winning writer.
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