Lewis, Paul - short clip - HurtingMoreThanHelping
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(pencil scratching) | 0:00 | |
- | Having worked for both parties | 0:02 |
on the Hill an executive branch there | 0:04 | |
everybody wants to protect the country. | 0:07 | |
It's just how you get there. | 0:09 | |
But everybody's operating in good faith. | 0:11 | |
I do think the United States has the legal authority | 0:14 | |
to detain people indefinitely, | 0:17 | |
with due process. | 0:20 | |
If they have lawyers | 0:21 | |
and it's not a legal black hole | 0:23 | |
that their status is reviewed. | 0:27 | |
But I think when you look at | 0:30 | |
all the issues, | 0:32 | |
the cost, | 0:33 | |
the international communities, | 0:35 | |
questions about Gitmo, | 0:37 | |
the recruiting tool | 0:39 | |
in President Obama's statement | 0:40 | |
that we can do better as a country. | 0:43 | |
The costs of Gitmo outweigh the benefits of Gitmo. | 0:46 | |
You know you can detain people, | 0:49 | |
Gitmo keep 'em off the battlefield. | 0:50 | |
But I personally think it's killing us | 0:52 | |
in the international community. | 0:53 | |
It's radicalizing people. | 0:55 | |
And most of the military General Dempsey said | 0:57 | |
Gitmo was hurting us, | 1:00 | |
General Petraeus said, Gitmo was hurting us. | 1:01 | |
You know, every secretary of state, | 1:04 | |
every secretary of defense. | 1:06 | |
There are arguments on both sides but, | 1:08 | |
most of the people in the Bush Administration, | 1:10 | |
including the President, | 1:13 | |
came to the conclusion that it's hurting us | 1:14 | |
more than helping us. | 1:16 | |
President Obama made the same conclusion | 1:18 | |
and I agree with him. | 1:22 |
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