jags we are now going to inject into federal court on immigration illegal entry cases are really going to be ill prepared for it. they are quick studies and i understand they are going to get training but let s not forget we are taking these 21 mull terry prosecutors away from their mission essential duties, the posts where they are serving and doing court-martialled. they are defending soldiers in court martials, providing little legal assistance to military members and their family, they are doing wills, adoptions and estate work. they are doing operations laugh, law of war. they are needed, you know, where they are assigned. so you have to wonder about the wisdom of pulling these people out who have no experience in immigration law and inequity jing them into the federal court to handle all of these misdemeanor illegal entry cases. last word to you in terms of the logistics of the executive
we need to figure out how we cannot better identify people who will kill in the name of radical islam. eboni: is the system that needs to be fixed. my issue, i was just in paris, i spent a week they re not one month ago. when this happened, i literally had the hairs on my arms stand up in a way know that i have before. it also had very close to home for me. here s the issue. it s not unforeseeable, these acts, these horrible acts that are leaving people dead, countries and ruin, and the world more afraid are not unforeseeable and that s a big deal to me. we have identified many of these people, we have detained many of these people and yet, they go free. where is the chink in the system that is affording this to keep happening? newt: there s an obvious core problem. we continue to apply criminal justice standards by which correctly, the whole process. if we don t apply the rules of law of war.
you i ask that you answer based on open source information available to the general public, and also your understanding of the law of war is a graduate of west point and your service as an officer in the u.s. army. first of all, your understanding of the officer in a u.s. army, is military targeting of civilians a violation of the law of war? senator, intentional targeting of civilians is absolutely a violation of law of war. based on open sources and information available to the american public, in a conflict of aleppo, syria, have russian forces conducted repeated attacks against civilian targets? based on open source reporting it appears they have. do believe, based on your knowledge again acquired through open sources and your general knowledge of geopolitics, that russian military forces could conduct a repeated attack against targets in aleppo, syria, without the express direction of vladimir putin? it seems intensely unlikely
for me it was a clarification. i do appreciate your apology. i take it with the sincerity with which you gave it. i want to ask one follow-up question to what the chairman asked, and that is dealing with those enhanced interrogation techniques. and that is that if you were ordered by the president to restart the cia s use of enhanced interrogation techniques that fall outside of the army field manual, would you comply? senator, absolutely not. moreover i can t imagine that i would be asked that by the president-elect or then-president. but it s very clear, i voted for the change up with the army field manual in place as a member of congress, i understand that law very, very quickly, and am also deeply aware that any changes to that will come through congress and the president. and regular order.
treatment of prisoners would only be in accordance with the army field manual, and that law was passed, the vote was 93-7 in the united states senate on that particular amendment. will you continue to support that and enforce that law? senator mccain, i voted for that, and i will. thank you. and do you have any recommendations for changing the army field manual or other rules governing interrogation, you will share those with congress question rick yes. and i don t want to take the time of the committee, but obviously the russians have been hacking, there is no doubt about that. and whether they intended, and what their intentions were, wet whether they actually succeeded and not, there is certainly no evidence. what do you think it is going to take to deter vladimir putin s continued interference, not just