âIn Bad Shape and Getting Worse,â Guantánamo Poses Headaches for Biden
The new administration confronts decaying infrastructure and a military justice system moving at a glacial pace.
A prisoner in the detention center zone of the United States naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.Credit.Doug Mills/The New York Times
WASHINGTON â As tropical rains swamped the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay this summer and fall, raw sewage sloshed inside the cells where the military has imprisoned Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and other so-called high-value Qaeda detainees for more than a decade, the prisoners told their lawyers.
the new book is called the assault on intelligence, american national security in an age of lies general michael hayden, thank you for your time and for being back on morning joe. thank you. good to be back among friends. any final thought? yeah. we can defeat this. and this truly is about us. it s our fractures, other people are trying to exploit. fix the fractures, it goes away. fix the fractures, it goes away. still to come on morning joe, the justice department pushes back hard in efforts to throw the russia investigation off course. the deputy a.g. vowing not be extorted. we ll talk to the washington
because it was so much not based on an objective threat. and so much based on the red meat of the campaign. it was really remarkable. richard is a creature of the executive branch. this is an area of the constitution, gives the president great authority. and awful lot of running room. and even here, the court said, not so fast. wow. still ahead an morning joe, hold that thought, mike barnicle it s mika s birthday. stop. general hayden takes us through his book, including his take on the trump tower meeting when the future president s campaign team hosted a group of russians promising dirt on hillary clinton. and that lawyer, mika, a lot closer to the kremlin. goodness. than any of us expected. donald trump actually said that this meeting was about adoption. aw. such a nice issue?
so sophie, i have an xfi password, and it s daditude . simple. easy. awesome. xfinity. the future of awesome. welcome back. we re here now to talk more about general hayden s book, which really cuts to the core of the problem right now with this presidency. it s the assault on intelligence: american national security in an age of lies. and that s the bottom line. which is breaking down, really, our national security. let s start at 30,000 feet. where are we right now? i come at it with kind of a three-layered problem. the number one is cultural. that s the biggest one. it s us. the book s about us and our political discourse or lack of discourse, our distrust. that s anchored also on the lack of truth, post-truth world, oxford dictionary definition,
saying it was standard operating procedure. this is the transfer of medical information from one office to the other. no, no, it s not usually how it works. kicking down the doors. special insurance plan. good morning. everyone, it s wednesday, may 2nd, around the table we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle, president of the council on foreign relations and author of the book a world in disarray richard haas. really disciplined about those. and we re happy to have with us former director of the c.i.a. and the nsa, now a principal at the chertoff group, retired general michael v. hayden the author of the book the assault on intelligence: american national security in an age of lies. which we ll be talking about a lot this hour and it s great to have you on. it s great to have you here. where do we begin this morning? there s a lot to get to.