Liotta, Alan - short clip - NoWartimeDetentionMeansWarCrimesandDeath
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| (pencil scratching) | 0:01 | |
| - | President Obama, he made it clear he was closing. | 0:03 |
| So he was not going to send anybody there. | 0:04 | |
| And he came up with a new process | 0:06 | |
| which is to really focus on prosecution | 0:08 | |
| to try and nab the culprit at wherever he is | 0:10 | |
| and then use that apprehension in a legal way | 0:14 | |
| and use clean teams and things like that. | 0:17 | |
| So they could do that. | 0:19 | |
| And that's now being tested in the courts. | 0:20 | |
| It'll be very interesting to see what happens. | 0:22 | |
| If the courts determine | 0:24 | |
| that we violated the due process | 0:25 | |
| when we violated the person that's criminal | 0:28 | |
| their rights in that regard | 0:30 | |
| then that whole process could get thrown out | 0:31 | |
| and then we'd be left with only other option is, | 0:33 | |
| and then we didn't get into this really | 0:37 | |
| cause I left it for others. | 0:38 | |
| But I think the one thing that people forget about | 0:39 | |
| on detention and capturing people is what's the alternative | 0:41 | |
| and the alternative is to kill them. | 0:45 | |
| Right? You have to give your forces | 0:46 | |
| the capability to capture people, | 0:48 | |
| because if you don't give them | 0:50 | |
| the capability to capture people | 0:51 | |
| you're going to result in many more killings | 0:53 | |
| happening on the battlefield. | 0:54 | |
| And so if you capture them | 0:55 | |
| you can't expect them to capture them | 0:57 | |
| and then they go through a legal process and leave, | 0:58 | |
| they're capturing them, and operating under the laws of war | 1:00 | |
| in a war time, kinetic activity. | 1:02 | |
| And it's going down from there. | 1:04 | |
| So people sometimes forget, it's easy to say | 1:05 | |
| we can just get rid of detention | 1:08 | |
| and we could just get rid of this. | 1:09 | |
| But there's consequences to that. | 1:10 | |
| Serious consequences to that. | 1:11 | |
| And elites and others can wax more eloquently | 1:13 | |
| than I on that. | 1:15 | |
| But it's a very serious concern that we've looked at | 1:16 | |
| and been very concerned about that. | 1:18 | |
| Look, we want to make sure | 1:19 | |
| that we never take away the detention aspect | 1:20 | |
| from the commander's ability to conduct his operation | 1:23 | |
| because otherwise we could put him and his units | 1:26 | |
| at risk of committing war crimes and other things. | 1:28 |
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