years ago. speaker at the event including jim moran of virginia and former chief prosecutor of the u.s. military commissions at guantanamo bay. this is an hour and a half. thank you for coming. i m peter bergen. i run the national securities program here. we re really delighted delighted probably not the right verb, but happy to have this distinguished panel to discuss we called the panel guantanamo forever? because that s the main question at hand whether or not guantanamo will close and how might that happen? to begin, we ll have congressman moran who is serving his 11th term as u.s. representative from virginia s 8th district, a member of the senior appropriations committee, a key critic of divisions in the national defense authorization act and a great act of political courage, congressman from virginia voted against the authorization of the act because of the provisions related to the military detention of terrorism suspects. we also have from the united kingdom, a
detainee policies, policies th that, i might add, were a contributing factor to the elimination of bin laden and many other terrorists through this past decade. i m curious to know if they ve appointed anyone to key posts in the department of justice who s ever prosecuted a terrorist. i d like to know that. maybe they have. surely somebody has. but it looks odd to me that so many of those who ve been on the other side have been given top appointments. and i m very disappointed in another subject with this administration s abdication of its duty to defend congressionally enacted laws. specifically, the defense of marriage act. the attorney general has stated that the president decided attorney general holder that the president had decided that he would no longer defend this law. review the after reviewing the attorney general s recommendation that doma falls under the exception in which quote the department of justice cannot offer a reasonable argument in defense of
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