- In the U.S. military, U.S. government, military included, we only swear allegiance to the constitution of the United States. That's it. We don't swear allegiance to a king, queen, flag, nation. We don't, it's only the constitution and the principles in that constitution. And I would just say that the vast majority of people who were engaged in all of this Guantanamo stuff, even those who did things that maybe I disagree with, believed that they were doing precisely that. And it's really just a matter of degree. We all believe in the same thing, we're all trying to preserve the national security of the United States, and the constitution and the values and the principles. And then it boils down to a question of the balance between tilting too far towards the security side of it, if you will, versus, on the other side, maybe protecting certain values and principles, knowing that if you degrade them too much, that that creates more of a risk than not. And that's what we disagreed on. It wasn't really on the end state, it was on how to achieve the same common goal. And so I don't fault anybody at all for things that they did or didn't do that in retrospect, you know, I may disagree with. It was their view at the time, and, you know, mine was different, and, you know, doing certain things, either, you know, calling the ICRC, or, you know, pushing back on that memo, on the enhanced interrogation memo, you know, you just do it, and at the end of the day you gotta feel comfortable with it. You don't wanna just roll over and just do what you're being told, you have your own individual responsibility to, you know, I swore allegiance to the constitution, and when it gets to that point, you know, where you really feel, then that's what you do.