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<v ->It is an environment in which we can provide</v>

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safe and humane treatment for the detainees

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who are, who are there.

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However I do see going forward

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that we're going to have to find new ways forward.

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And when I worked at Guantanamo,

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I wished passionately

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and there were others there that I worked with,

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and when we would have time for conversations

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outside of work, we would discuss this.

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I really wish that from early on there had been a program

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of de- and counter-radicalization

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because it became clear that many of these individuals

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were going to be going home at some point,

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and we should have recognized that more openly upfront.

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In addition to that,

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we were often interrogating detainees who had been

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in leadership positions.

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Granted, some of those leadership positions

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may have involved training others to build bombs,

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but these were individuals who were smart

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and capable as human beings.

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And the human capacity that I encountered there

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in the intelligence of some of the detainees

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in their self-discipline and their hard work,

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if there would only be a way

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to help channel that human capacity

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into positive things.

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Especially as these detainees

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some have already gone home and more will go home,

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I wish we would have more of an eye to that.