mr. paul lewis is joining us. we are pleased that he is here. special envoy, previously mr. lewis served as both the general counsel and minority general counsel, without objection, the witnesses full prepared statements will be made part of the record, members will have five calendar days to submit any statements or questions or any material they want might to submit to the record and i would like to remind everybody that willful misrepresentation or false statements by a witness is a criminal offense under 18 u.s. code section 1001, indeed, that is the case for of our hearings and special lowosky summarize your remarks. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman, good morning, i appreciate you inviting me once again to appear before this committee, i look toward to continues discussion in close session either later today as we have offered or as soon as possible so that we can have a fuller discussion of some of the classified topics we know are of interest to the committee. all together a total of 779 detainees have passed through guantanamo and of those 700 have departed. the

mr. paul lewis is joining us. we are pleased that he is here, special envoy for guantanamo detention at the u.s. department of defense. previously, he served as both the general counsel and the minority general counsel on the u.s. armed services committee. without objection, the witnesses' full prepared statements will be made part of the record. members will have five calendar days to submit any statement or questions or any extraneous material they might want to submit for the record. i would like to remind everyone, including our witnesses, that ful false statements is a criminal offense. indeed, that is the case for all of our hearing, and special envoy wolosky, please make your remarks. thank you very much. good morning. i appreciate your inviting you once again to appear before the committee. i look forward to continuing our discussion in closed session either later today as we have offered or as soon as possible so that we can have a fuller discussion of some of the classified topic that we know are of inte

mr. paul lewis, joining us. s here, special envoy for guantanamo detention closure at the u.s. department of defense. previously mr. lewis served as both the general counsel and the minority general counsel on the u.s. armed services committee. without objection, the witnesses' full prepared statements will be made part of the record. members will have five calendar days to submit any statements or questions or any extraneous material they might want to submit for the record, and i'd like to remind everyone, including our witness its, that wilful misrepresentation or false statements by a witness is a criminal offense under 18-point u.s. code section 1001. indeed that is the case for all of our hearings, and special envoy wolosky please summarize your remarks. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. ranking member, distinguishes members of the committee good morning itch appreciate your inviting me once again to appear before the committee. i look forward to continuing our discussion in closed session, either later

mr. paul lewis is joining us. we're pleased he is there. special envoy closure at the department of defense. previously he served as both the general council and minority general council on the u.s. armed services committee. without objection, the witness's full prepared statements will be made part of the record. members will have five calendar days to submit any statements or questions or any extraneous material they might want to submit for the record and i would like to remind everyone, including our witnesses that willful miss representation or false statements by a witness is a criminal offense under 18 u.s. code section 1001. indeed, that is the case for all of the hearings and special envoy wolosky, please summarize your remarks. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman, ranking member engel, distinguished members of the committee, good morning, i appreciate your inviting me once again to appear before this committee. i look forward to continuing our discussion in closed session either late later today as we have or as soon as possible