shut down guantanamo he doesn't have the using colonel davis's own terms the balls to do that colonel davis could you clarify that latest statement for us or he was elected i was thrilled you know that he took office the first thing he did was sign an order. closing guantanamo within one year of his order which was signed in january of two thousand and nine and we're sitting here today and guantanamo still open the military commissions have resumed and in my view the president just didn't have the balls to follow through with the doing the right thing do you think it's because when he became president he would learn things that he had known before i don't know if it was he learned things that he didn't know before or he faced a bigger obstacle than he anticipated you know saying you know the slogan close guantanamo sounds fairly simple actually following through and doing it is a much more difficult process you know they're saying the reason we're not shutting

down guantanamo is because we don't know what to do with the remaining detainees other countries don't want to have them well you know we haven't helped ourselves in that front of the weaker is for instance the chinese muslims that were cleared years ago is not being a threat to the u.s. we beg two dozen countries to help us out they're not a threat take the weekers. and a few did a few countries did a couple of years ago a judge here in washington d.c. ordered the weavers released and brought to the u.s. and suddenly our government said oh no they're too dangerous we can't have them in the u.s. while we begged other countries to help us out and take some of the detainees we've never been willing to take one or so so we're a little hypocritical on that front colonel davis you were the chief prosecutor at guantanamo i want to know how did you go from being an advocate of the process to being a hard lying critic of the practices i took the job as chief prosecutor in september of two thousand and five and i. believed at the time and did for most of my tenure

that we were committed to having full fair and open trials my policy had been we were not going to use any evidence obtained by waterboarding or any of the other enhanced interrogation techniques that most people call torture and i had support above me for doing that then in the summer of two thousand and seven some new people came in and said wait a minute president bush said we don't torture so president bush says we don't torture who are you to say that we do and we've got all this information that was collected that you're not using you need to get in there and use it and that was when i felt that our commitment to full fair and open trials had diminished and i submitted my resignation what would you say to those who claim the difference between president obama and president bush as far as their anti-terrorism policy is bush would detain the suspects torture them prosecute them president obama just kills them doesn't have to go into all that detention trouble less certainly i

think there's some facts to support that perception and i said candidate obama you know said all the right things about justice and american values and closing guantanamo and doing away with military commissions and upholding the rule of law and then once he gets in office you know he didn't just embrace the bush policies he kissed him on the lips and ran with them and has advanced them further than president bush ever did like killing an american with a drone strike in yemen the bonior. correct which is just. astounding that an american president can make a unilateral decision that an american saying it was a really bad guy he deserved it well of all it bad guys need to die there are a lot of other people i could put on that list but an american citizen for an american president to make the unilateral decision that a civilian agency the cia. would go to another country and launch an op. since

a military operation fire a missile and kill american and bystanders it was just anwar on the walkie that was killed or four people killed that day. i'm not aware of any legal justification for that i think it's called murder to kill another human being deliberately without legal justification are drones becoming the new arm of the u.s. just that you know there's nothing wrong with per se with drones i mean just another weapon system is basically an airplane with a pilot sitting in a in a lounge chair other than the cockpit it's how they're used to concerns me. if they're being used to avoid. complying with the law and giving people due process and their day in court and that's a sad chapter in america's history if that's what we're doing. we've always our strength for two hundred years was the wall not turning our back on it so if we're if the administration is choosing to have as a choice between kill or capture and they're choosing kill just because that's the

easy route and that's a sad commentary on america in two thousand and eleven you know we hear that all the time a u.s. drone killed ten terrorists in pakistan as if that's beyond reasonable doubt that those were terrorists i think it's another black spot on the american reputation. would we condone it these are american citizens being killed by another government under similar circumstances. you know it's great when we're the country that has the drones it may not be quite as great when other countries have that same capability that are used against us and. crossing another border launching an office of attack often conducted by the cia which is a civilian agency that you know they're not a they're not the military they don't have combatant immunity and put it for the president to send them out to conduct often said military operations. is just unprecedented you're talking about do you legal process do they think if they

operate outside the united states everything is just legally fine i guess we're fortunate that america's the no six hundred pound gorilla in the playground who's going to tell us we can't. which is fine as long as we're the big kid on the playground but we may not always be in that status we're supposed to set the example a positive example you know we claim to be the champion of the rule of law but it seems that we're a champion of the rule of law when we're trying to apply it to others not so much when. we're looking at in the mirror at ourselves. the convention against torture for instance we're signatory to that if you use all recently the republican presidential debates were candidates they would resume waterboarding so you know we love to criticize other countries. who were not so good at holding up the mirror to her so you are the chief prosecutor at guantanamo i was just wondering what was the ratio of people who got into one tunnel for for

a reason real bad guys and those who let's say did not deserve guantanamo treatment well if you accepted the bush administration's characterization of your call maybe donald rumsfeld secretary of defense saying you know these men are the worst of the worst they get you through the hydraulic lines on the airplane on the way to going to go just to kill americans i think a lot of people bought that narrative that all of these guys are the worst of the worst there are a total of about seven hundred seventy five men that have been a kuantan a moat some point in time there are about one hundred seventy left today so more than six hundred have been released her transferred back to their country of origin or some other country most of those by the bush administration so you know these guys are all the worst of the worst the hardened terrorists that were out to kill americans it seems strange that we would send more than six hundred of them out of

guantanamo the reason i asked is a former guantanamo detainee told me when. they seized him pakistan pakistani authorities were so anxious to give the americans some numbers you know when heads that they couldn't care less about do legal process he was tortured he was sent to guantanamo spend a few years there before being released on a different note if president obama during his next presidential campaign again promises to shut down guantanamo and says well this time yes well well and yes we can would you believe him. i believe president obama the first time he told me he was going to close guantanamo i'd recently retired from the military when he was running for president and for the first time in my adult life i got to participate in a campaign you know the military stays out of politics so after i retired i put in a bomb a sign in the front yard i donated to the campaign i went door to door campaigning for him somebody came in my yard set on fire and i put up another one. i believed

in his hope and change that he promised you know what you're saying reminds me someone wisely said it's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love drunk or running for office or all three at the same time period and worse that you know i've seen his lips move before and say the right words i'll believe it when i see it thanks for the interview sir. roger to clean. squandered money. one. more lose sixty square kilometers of the environmental devastation

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thanks for joining us this is sports today plenty to head over the next ten minutes or so including the stories of three. as you were among chester city missed the chance to start the new year assume leaders of the english premier league bowling alley defeat to some gallant. first blood twenty ten champions spain open their hot one cup campaign with victory. despite the hosts taking the opening rubber in perth . and causing a splash we look back at one of the most thrilling sport events of twenty eleven the french leg of the cliff diving world championships. let's get the ball rolling with football it could have been a historic start to twenty twelve for months sister city but instead the sky blues

dream of taking over sole control of the premier league went up in smoke against sunderland city commentated through the stadium of light by an injury time drive from. breaking the hearts of the only some one else in the wind means that three title favorites city their cross-town rivals on joint table toppers united and chelsea all lost their games this weekend earlier on sunday everton claimed their first win of twenty twelve in the league a late goal from victory. making all the difference against west brom everton above the baggies and the ten in the table. now to me are below dean off didn't see any playing time in his side's win over west brom indeed he may not be seeing any more at all than in meant with british media saying that twenty six will move to russia during the january transfer window. on the side believed to be seeking the russian international signature. pozen played for the. we the luck of first team football

a concern as it could affect his chances of lining our for his country at next summer's european championships the midfielder was sold to everton by lokomotiv moscow just over two years ago for thirteen million dollars everton reportedly wants nine million dollars for any of the away from criticism. the new year may just have begun but the first big tournaments of the tennis season is already well under way australian spain the latest countries who battled it out on sunday in the eight team event in perth. guy joseph getting the old soft two winning start in the group jump the checkerboard also he was taking on the bell medina good. opening receiving six three responded opponent pope stormed back in the second taken by the same scoreline but led by a big home support turn the. other also six three for the.

top it off though for none to over to a store level modest for team spain defeating lleyton hewitt six three three six seven games by would mean decisive doubles rubber and they turned into the loose end of the all the data is truly taking the first set were strange for back in the second the third a war of attrition before the spaniards edged the eleven nine. ok let's talk n.b.a. basketball now a perennial underachievers to new york knicks and twenty eleven on a high note seeing off the sacramento kings uncalled for then function on the road the visitors starting as they meant to continue finishing the opening for a full fifteen points ahead leaving thirty five twenty on the meet the scoring for the knicks with twenty three thirty two point around to make it fifty six forty two in the second period the hosts did reduce the deficit to. thirteen by the end of

the third the final twelve minutes were to belong to them and adding nine more points on their californian rivals one hundred fourteen ninety two the final score new york and she wins two losses for the year to. two ice hockey russia took their foot off the pedal on sunday in their final group stage of the under twenty world championships the red machine know how already there are a playoff berth earlier in the week the fourth time last week meaning russia finished second in group eight had it all been going swimmingly income of their for the russians leaving three zero fielding third but the swedes did not give all leavening managed by the end of the third period before a punter named meets goal other than the victory make the czech republic and choose the in the knockout stages. now the man who guided the all blacks rugby team to world cup glory has been knighted in his country's new years on this list graham

henry led new zealand to their first world cup title in twenty four years last october the noro eight seven win over france in the final and a sixteen year old former school teacher can now call them self serve graham henry is the latest in a handful of former players and coaches to receive new zealand's highest honor the all blacks captain richie mccall was also approached by prime minister john key but he turned the night to darren stating he was too young thirty to receive such an act that henry was delighted with his own. daughters. feel very humble about bats and as i say it's a reflection on what people have done every time. and i appreciate where it's come from and. got a lot of respect for them. but i wouldn't be asked to be called. and let's finish up by taking a look back at one of the most exhilarating events of twenty eleven the la rochelle laid off the cliff diving world championships and gary hunt may have one that you

can turn. although. part of the. interests of creation. theory. freedom. three steps forward but we still see it in older feeling of any kind don't ever write. the story if you don't think east get out. is not possible the only things we see the. playing tonight from the d.c. eight hundred twenty seven meters. in the resurgence of freefall. into the water this beautiful hundred kilometers. this is one of the moves dangerous course on the planet is just a slight mistake the result in broken movies in much worse. indifferent to the

dumber. they have to fight their nerves before every single. spear but it's not panic it's good when you're scared it would be far more dangerous if we weren't before any high dive i realize how risky it is but you should be positive it is. scary. but that's part of the enjoyment. there is a danger factor but we train. for many many years to become divers. professional. high quality and so the risk of danger is minimalized this is the french. police where the brits taking a hike. come together to chill an elite cleave divers. for diving comes within just a few hours of the high tide that lent degrees of. well makes the scene the coolest

so platform one of the toughest sports the weekly dubbing series have to all four with the win like this it's a bit hard to stand there on the platform and one of even more important you'll have to keep your belt on before the high dive. these guys prove they've go it takes until he says dangerous weather conditions and the low paid for itself but all the pressure and research these deer devils take day off is the rule of the india and east to them priceless you turn to the surface and take a deep breath. and there is such a big burly you eve built up so much emotions before the dawn. finally when you when you hit the water everything's ok you know sort of relieved. it's describable feeling same with the feeling you get doing high dogs can hardly

be compared to anything it's a competition it gives you an amazing drive especially with all the best of divers come together and you manage to. it's extreme. it's been competitive see the year two films with each passing season it makes you feel completed it does too with. a perfect takeoff we want that perfect position then the perfect autumn just because it brings a nation new elements doesn't mean that the judge has to give all points for this we want perfection we're looking for perfection and we judge according to. the biggest evil crowd of seventy thousand spectators witnessed men demonstrate their stunning abilities in the latest flick of the world series in little shit it's been . cliff diving is an up and coming sport there are a lot of different locations all over the globe which can host high diving competitions i'm a classic platform diver and i sport never attracted as many spectators as cliff

diving never do the french like to put rules and spills to keep you to. stay tuned for the build up to the. public but the party. prospects are simply amazing every time i see them all the sports weather is up next here in twenty four hour. well the. technology.

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start on t.v. dot com. president obama put his signature under a bill that could see terrorist suspects held indefinitely without trial despite saying he was unsure of something aspect it entailed. a doubt so happy new year for the euro zone recession alarm bells in the years gloomy predictions mark the start of two thousand and twelve ten years after the common currency made its way into people's wallets. and israel secrets are put under a turkish lance with an anchor is new satellite in the works of israel's concerned they are in the sky i can break and zoom in that. one pm the russian capital you're watching r.t. president barack obama has signed a controversial to fans bill that basically allows the indefinite detention of

terrorist suspects the us president said he had serious reservations on some provisions regarding the treatment of detainees but as made of ordinary reports during his time in office obama has shown he is not always good to his war. long before he became u.s. president or a nobel peace prize winner barack obama was a constitutional law professor we have never been more energized at night it was. a civil liberties champion turned charismatic candidate who vowed to reverse the abuses and policies of his predecessor george w. bush four years later many civil rights advocates who once cheered yes we can are finding themselves saying no you can't not only has the obama administration blocked torture accountability and refused to investigate and prosecute. he's he's basically maintained indefinite detention.