lawyer. you ve been look noog this guy. what about him? mr. fidell is one of the founders of the national institute of military justice. one of the interesting things about him is that he s kind of created a career on his own in terms of putting in amicus briefs to court of appeals. amicus means a friend of the court brief. he s been a friend of the court trying to protect the right of so-called terrorist detainees, enemy combatants. in several cases, the hamdan case, and others, he s spoken out on behalf of detainees, enemy combatants, at guantanamo bay. he s been he is used to working against the u.s. military complex? he s expert on military law, but his institute has made it one of its specialties to put in these amicus briefs on behalf of
important with this committee if you are, in fact, confirmed as the next director. i expect this commitment to be bourn out in practice regardless of political pressures and not just become words spoken in the confirmation process. far too often the committee facing unnecessarily and frankly legally questionable obstacles in receiving needed oversight information from the intelligence committee. i also believe it s important for you to set the record straight on a few matters relating to detention policy and the cia s detention and interrogation program. we know that the 2009 executive order removed the cia from the detention business but the current framework is simply not working to get realtime access to intelligence from terrorist detainees. i reviewed elements of the 9/11 commission report in preparation
exactly three, that s it, three high value terrorist detainees. one being khalid shaikh muhammad who was the mastermind of 9/11. no terrorist was ever water boarded and killed and on the contrary the obama administration is a allowing the targeting of american citizens to die. killing them without allowing them any legal recourse, no safeguards in place and the killings themselves are based on limits that one aclu official likely called elastic, vaguely defined and easily manipulated and d in the pro process killing many other nontargetted human beings in one case innocent children. i have to ask are the democrats going to rake obama over the coals like they did george w. bush? what about the news media? are we going to start seeing outrage from the networks? that is doubtful. there will be silence from the lap dogs in the obama mania media.
exactly three, that s it, three high value terrorist detainees. one being khalid shaikh muhammad who was the mastermind of 9/11. no terrorist was ever water boarded and killed and on the contrary the obama administration is a allowing the targeting of american citizens to die. killing them without allowing them any legal recourse, no safeguards in place and the killings themselves are based on limits that one aclu official likely called elastic, vaguely defined and easily manipulated and d in the pro process killing many other nontargetted human beings in one case innocent children. i have to ask are the democrats going to rake obama over the coals like they did george w. bush? what about the news media? are we going to start seeing outrage from the networks? that is doubtful. there will be silence from the lap dogs in the obama mania media. in terms of the sher depth and
in afghanistan earlier today, apparently, in retaliation over the u.s. troops burning qurans at a nato base. keep in mind, those qurans had been defiled, reportedly, by terrorist detainees and were disposed of in the wake of that. they weren t supposed to be burned, we are being told that was an accident by our troops. our president has apologized, and the murders continue in the wake of this. now the united nations is joining the afghanistan president hamid karzai on calling on the u.s. military to take action against the soldiers involved in getting rid of those qurans. listen to this guy. my only, indeed, request is that after the first step, very important step, profound apology there must be the second step, drawing the consequences after the investigation will be completed. be and, indeed, appropriate