Berg, Thomas - short clip - WeWereNaive
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- | We had offices in the Pentagon | 0:00 |
directly adjacent to the area that had | 0:03 | |
been blown out by the impact of the aircraft | 0:04 | |
that hit the Pentagon. | 0:07 | |
So we worked with the smells | 0:09 | |
and with mold and everything else | 0:10 | |
that was related to the damage in the place. | 0:13 | |
As we were trying to grind out, I guess, | 0:16 | |
doing, do the grunt work of developing rules | 0:19 | |
and procedures using primarily resources | 0:22 | |
from the uniform code of military justice | 0:26 | |
and experience based on the Nuremberg trials | 0:28 | |
because we read transcripts of a number of those cases | 0:32 | |
and talked with some of the surviving lawyers | 0:35 | |
to try and come up with a process | 0:38 | |
that we thought would look fair in 50 years. | 0:40 | |
That was, that was our goal was to create something | 0:44 | |
that was transparent and fair. | 0:47 | |
We were naive because we didn't appreciate | 0:51 | |
how political the process really was. | 0:54 | |
And who was, who was ultimately calling the shots. | 0:57 | |
We thought the army would have the lead. | 1:00 | |
We had lots of interference from civilians | 1:02 | |
and department of defense, from the white house, | 1:04 | |
from the department of justice, | 1:06 | |
who ultimately took control of the process. | 1:08 | |
We went in there with a great deal of enthusiasm. | 1:11 | |
I think a sense of patriotism thinking | 1:13 | |
that this was going to be an opportunity | 1:15 | |
for America to show the world | 1:17 | |
how it could- it was truly great. | 1:18 | |
That we would rise above what had happened to us | 1:20 | |
to do the right thing. | 1:23 | |
And it was clear that some people wanted | 1:26 | |
immediate political gain out of this, right? | 1:27 | |
As opposed to long-term perspective. | 1:29 |
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