Before that, during a February 2010 speech in New York, Brennan referred to Jerusalem by its Arabic name, Al-Quds. „In all my travels the city I have come to love most is Al-Quds, Jerusalem, where three great faiths come together,“ he said.
During the same speech, Brennan also defended a 20 percent recidivism rate among Guantanamo detainees as not „that bad.“