TEHRAN One of the Iranian nationals detained by the United States is held under dire humanitarian conditions as his access to emergency medical care is denie
we re all going to have to contribute to afghanistan, not even reconstruction, construction. it s a very broken country. do you feel, congresswoman, that there is enough blame to go around that there were mistakes made in the clinton administration, mistakes made in this administration, that these commission hearings are effectively a moot point? i think it s very important for us to have the commission hearing. i was the first person to introduce the idea of a 9/11 commission. any time there is an allegation of abuse, we investigate. that s what transparent societies do. we ve got a press corps that s constantly asking tough questions about prisoner treatment, for example. you just asked one. and that s what you do in an open society. now president carter has said shut it down. joe biden said shut it down. do you think it should be shut down? we re exploring all alternatives as to the main
this is a broken country. do you feel there s enough blame to go around, that there were mistakes made in this administration, and other ministrations, but these commission hearings are effectively a moot point? i think they are in point for us to have a hearing. i was the first person to introduce the idea of the 9/11 commission. any time there is an allegation of abuse, we investigate. that is what transparent societies do. we have got eric press corps that is constantly asking tough questions about prisoner treatment, for example. you just ask one. that s when an open society does. they answer the questions. president carter has said shut it down. joe biden has said shut it down. do you think it should be shut down? we are explain all alternatives as to how to best do the main objective, which is to protect america. the stakes are high in iraq on a rock that is peaceful and begins to move towards
limit interrogations to the army field manual. other of that sort. let s talk about the guantanamo bay for a moment. was it day one that president obama signed an executive order, i will close guantanamo bay? actually it was day two. day two, okay. day two and there was this wonderful ceremony. he signed three or four of these relating to prisoner treatment and to guantanamo, and i can remember the scene when he signed the one relating to guantanamo, because he read it out, sort of staggered through it, frankly, by the power vested in me, consistent with the national security interests of the united states, closing guantanamo, he signed it with a great flourish, and then he said, and i think you can still watch this on youtube. it s on youtube right now? yes. he said greg which was a reference to greg craig, who was then white house counsel, is there another order saying what we re going to do with these people? which meant he hadn t thought through something that is th
to contribute to afghanistan s, not even reconstruction, but construction in the first instance. this is a very broken country. we just want to prevent another tragedy from happening in our country or to our interests, anyone anywhere in the world. do you feel, congresswoman, that there s enough blame to go around, mistakes made in the clinton administration, mistakes made in this administration, that these commission hearings are effectively a moot point? no. i think it was very more to have the commission hearing. we ve got a press corps constantly asking tough questions about prisoner treatment, for example. you just asked one. and that s what opens societies do. they answer the questions. president carter has said shut it down, joe biden said shut it down. do you think it should be shut down? we re exploring alternatives as to how best to do the main objective, which is to protect america.