welcome back to hannity. now, as we reported last night army green beret veteran has been charged with murder of a taliban bombmaker in afghanistan from back in 2010. in a killing, he admitted to during a 2016 interview with fox s own bret baier. now the case is stoking outrage outrage and even review from president trump. now joining us is his wife julie golsteyn and his father jerry golsteyn. thank you both for joining us. i appreciate it julia, i will start with you, tell us who your husband was i have read all the reports on this that i could. you said this is a mischaracterization of who your husband is why did he join the military? who was your husband? my husband joined because he went to west point
if not, as michael just addressed, what do we do? we can t just let bomb makers back on the battlefield. another point michael just brought up as well, it s not just us it s the sources to give these up. go back and take out our sources is there any dissolutiosolution to this. dan, to answer your first question what do you do when you encounter a bombmaker on the battlefield you kill them or capture them and then interrogate them. the your second question is, specifically, did we have field detention sites in place for the battle, the biggest battle to occur in afghanistan ever. had the command taken the necessary steps to make sure that there were military intelligence interrogators on hand to handles detainee flow that they knew would occur from this battle. and the answer is no. it was a huge military intelligence failure let s take a look at what has happening at the time. bradley manning was wikileaks.
welcome back to hannity. now, as we reported dan: welcome back to hannity. now as we reported last night army green beret veteran matthew golsteyn hass been charged with murder of a taliban bombmaker in afghanistan from back in 2010. in a killing, he admitted to during a 2016 interview with fox s own bret baier. now the case is stoking outrage outrage and even a review from president trump. now joining us is his wife julie golsteyn and his father jerry golsteyn. thank you both for joining us. i appreciate it. julia, i will start with you. tell us who your husband was. i have read all the reports on this that i could. you said this is a mischaracterization of who your husband is. why did he join the military? who was your husband? my husband joined because
rules of engagement and what i faced and what major golsteyn faced and so many others is there is no prison system in afghanistan. there is nowhere to put these guys once have you captured them so you are faced with that horrible choice either you release them and know they are going to kill every afghan who worked with you and americans. getting them over to guantanamo bay or getting them somewhere to a prisoner system that doesn t exist in afghanistan isn t an option. and my point is this dilemma. , this flawed engagement strategy is happening right now as we speak. and it needs to be fixed because men and women are out there. having to make this horrible choice every day right now. general tata when this happens is, it the military s job to set up detainment to be able to detain these people aren t high level enough to be shipped over to gitmo?
had you bergdahl who was already in captivity with the taliban. you had mcchrystal that had requested another, you know, 50,000 troops or so. and obama was taking his sweet time in delivering them h not delivered them yet. they were underresourced military intelligence community had not detention site. major golsteyn should have never seen this individual again. he should have been able to turn him over to interrogators and interrogate him. he was a threat to u.s. forces and he had intelligence value and he should have been processed up to bag gram theater internment detention facility. if i can jump in very quickly. we had a huge facility in iraq camp buca. we had one in afghanistan up near the capital in kabul. president obama handed it over to the afghans. then they had no choice and no options. and that s the problem. dan: i m really worried about the disincentive effect. i get it.