this, but we also want to recognize colonel gatson, and there s another member here, kyle carpenter, a he was awarded the medal of honor for rushing toward a hand grenade launched at him and his marines. he twenty-two and a half years in the hospital. and he was honored with the medal in 2014. well, i would like to say thank you, and you are a role model and our inspiration. i would also point out i m one of the few aviators whose number of landings don t match the number of takeoffs. i m happy to see you. can i say one thing? sure. i was a military lawyer prior to my service. the only people who wanted to kill me were my clients. i m honored to be in a room with three people like this. thanks.
so, let s talk about the law of war. i think you were asked about senator feinstein about the indefinite detention. homdy versus rumsfeld, this is sandra day o connor s quote. there is no bar to this nation s holding one of its own citizens as an enemy combatant. that case involved a u.s. citizen that was captured in afghanistan and was held as an enemy combatant. are you familiar with that case? generally yes. not as familiar as you, but i know you studied it in great depth. this has been a military lawyer, this is part of what i did. do your constitutional rights as a u.s. citizen stop at the nation s shores or do they follow you wherever you go? well, you have certain rights wherever you go. so, if you go to paris, you don t give up your fourth amendment right against illegal search and seizure. could the fbi break into your hotel room in paris and
surprise that he would allow these interviews to be broadcast. why do you think he s doing it? so there are rumors this was coming. this wasn t a total surprise, that this was going to be the topic. why he s doing that, his lawyer is a well known military lawyer for reporters like me at the pentagon, is saying this is him getting out his side of the story. there was 25 hours of conversation filmed. this is the same filmmaker behind zero dark thirty. so to go back to that filmmaker to tell your story is interesting to me. but this is his unfiltered, his version of events. we ll have to see if it has
on their knees. the surge did work. he with drew all of our forces. al qaeda and iraq came back and became isil. three years ago, assad was on the ropes. the free syrian army was not in tact. i blame obama for the rise of isil, not anyone else. but on our side of the aisle, we ve had people who are acting like we re fighting a crime, not a war, that want to take our ability to detect the next attack, take our intelligence community and make it dark, not realizing the only way to defend america is to pick up the attack before it happens. so we go from one extreme to the other. it seems to be the only way we get intel now is well after the crime. we were able yeah, that s right. the paris raid occurred because of the paris attack. yeah. it s not a crime. i ve been a military lawyer for
on their knees, the surge did work. and he withdrew all of our forces. became isil. three years ago, assad was on the ropes, the free syrian army was in tact. he went against all of his advisers, so i blame obama for the rise of isil, not anyone else. but on our side of the aisle, we have people acting like we re fighting a crime, not a war, that want to take our intelligence community and make it dark. not realizing the only way to defend america is pick up the attack before it happens. so we go from one extreme to the other. it seems to me the only way we get intel now is after the crime. we were able yeah, that s right. the paris raid occurred because of the paris attack. yeah. it s not a crime. i ve been a military lawyer for 33 years. we re in a state of war with isil and other groups.