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Janet Napolitano Responds to Report of Deportation for Former 'Person of Interest': 'Not Worthy of an Answer
April 18, 2013
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Update: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed to TheBlaze that a Saudi Arabian national in custody is a different person and "in no way" affiliated with the Boston Marathon attack.
Original story below:
A visibly irritated Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano refused to answer a Republican congressman's questions about the possible deportation of the Saudi Arabian national questioned as a witness in the Boston Marathon bombings.
Napolitano called South Carolina Rep. Jeff Duncan's question "so full of misstatements and misapprehension that it's just not worthy of an answer."
"We have someone who's being deported due to national security concerns," Duncan had said during a Capitol Hill hearing Thursday. "We've got this guy who was there, we know he was there...and yet we're going to deport him? We're going to remove him from the scene?"
"If I might, I am unaware of anyone who is being deported for national security concerns at all related to Boston," Napolitano said.
"He is being deported," Duncan said.
Napolitano said as she understood it, the man was not technically a person of interest or a suspect, and "this is is an example of why it is so important to let law enforcement do its job."
"I want them to do their job," Duncan said. "Wouldn't you agree with me that it's negligent for us as an American administration to deport someone who was reportedly at the scene of the bombing and we're going to deport him, not to be able to question him anymore?"
"I am not going to answer that question it is so full of misstatements and misapprehension that it's just not worthy of an answer...there's been so much reported on this that's been wrong I can't even begin to tell you, congressman," Napolitano replied. "We will provide you with accurate information as it becomes available."
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