Susan cahill, of all Families Health care. And then the unknown known. There were one or two, or three, but there were not all of these socalled memos. They were mischaracterized as torture memos and they came not out of the bush administration, per se, but under the u. S. Department of justice. Academy awardwinning documentary filmmaker errol morris talks about his new film, the unknown known. Does rumsfeld apologize for the iraq war . We will find out. All that and more coming up. To democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Continues anma overseas tour in italy today where he is meeting with pope francis for the first time. Wraping up a visit to brussels, obama delivered an address criticizing russia for annexing ukraine and using what he called brute force. Of course, ukraine is not a memo member of nato, in part because of its complex history with russia, nor will russia be dislodged from crimea or deterred from further escalation by military for
Congressman, again, i will say when we close this place down and go into the classified, well go into every one of those specifics, but i would tell you this, you may have already read the mou which we sent up here yesterday, and well be glad to take you down into the subparagraph six of each one of those to get to your question. But to go beyond my testimony here, i dont want to do that and if its okay, well wait. Let me go back historically then and look at the history of qatar and what theyve done in receiving detainees. As you know, the first transfer to qatar was in 2008, and was that one considered a successful test case . I believe, and i just asked our general counsel if we just had one transfer. Is that right . To qatar . To my knowledge. So weve had one. I dont know all the history of that transfer, although my understanding is it wasnt particularly good generally. So whats changed . Again, i addressed this here this morning. First of all, you have a new em emir. Weve got mor
Dial in the arrangements in which Henry Kissinger reached effectively in the early 1970s. Which was a strategic accommodation between washington and beijing based on a common strategic between the soviet union. And the subsequent unfolding of what then become modernizing china, as well. Have we reached a new point at which that fundamental access has changed. I think personally that the shanghai meeting represents the culmination of the forces which have been in work for quite some time in the china russia relationship and the china u. S. Relationship which begin fundamentally to alter the premises of the 1972 strategic concord. The second point i would seek to go to how then our analysis to one side is this reality viewed from beijing . And then finally, and though i am no russia file, russia expert and no sovietologist by training, how some of these realities have viewed from moscow, as well. On the china view of reality, i think its always important to go back to the fundamental pri
Constitutional perfection . Despite a clear provision in the law he cant do that . This president faced a Service Member in peril in activity and exercised a constitutional duty and authority to recover that Service Member. In circumstances in which it was the judgment of the policy, the leading policy makers of this country, that the circumstances were not going to permit the 30day notification. Thats a very concrete response to what was a very compelling situation. I understand that youre saying that under these particular circumstances. Youre not saying that its a blanket thing. But you think under certain circumstances, the president of the United States, after he has signed a law and it has become law, can decide certain parts of it he doesnt have to comply with, without going to a court and getting a determination about his constitutional basis for doing so . There are circumstances, and this was one. One final question for you, secretary hagel. Could you please provide us assura
People, and then just looking at the past videos of him versus that video. It was pretty clear to me that his health was deteriorating. Mr. Secretary, theres been some previous questioning about the risk future risk potential future risk to American Service members if they were to have to recapture these five individuals who were swapped. In the prisoner of war exchange. Is there any evidence whatsoever that any future risk for those five is any greater than the 532 folks who have previously been released by the Bush Administration or, for that matter, the 88 that have been released from the Obama Administration, a total of 620 prisoners. According to our Intelligence Community, the answer is no. One final question for you, mr. Secretary. Sergeant bergdahl, when he was captured, was a private 1st class. Correct . For those who are not familiar, that would be an e3. And today he is a sergeant, or an e5. So hes been promoted twice by the army during his period of captivity. Isnt that cor