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 in 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 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 learned 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've begged 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 us 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 hardline 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

there 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 impressed them 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 boyar all walleye please 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 all 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 office of military operation for a missile and kill. american and bystanders it was just anwar on the walkie that

was killed there were 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. justice here 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 rather 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 law 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 that 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 to 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 is the you know six hundred pound gorilla in the playground i mean 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 wall when we're trying to apply it to others not so much for one. 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 of 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 they were 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 know just to kill americans i think a lot of people bought that narrative that all of these guys were the worst of the worst there were 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 transfer 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 seem 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 due 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've 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 was somebody came in my yard set my obama sign on fire and i put up another one. i believed in this hope and change that he promised you know what you're

saying reminds me someone wisely said it's useless to hold the person to anything he says while he's in love drunk or running for office or all three at the same time to be even 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 nothing less for your town. culture is that so much a lot of people actually carry all their little tapes of what just leave some twelve fold for the world would be this trade deal with just the year before who will set the trend school stay in power and.

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thanks for joining us this is for today plenty ahead over the next ten minutes or so including these stories and very. deadly does in the twelve in the n.f.l. are the side with the new york giants claiming the final berth at the expense of. no mercy one of the favorites for n.b.a. glory this year chicago. rushing the grizzlies. forty point. when you think of milan's sport images of football and undeniably come to mind but could ice hockey. to the mix. we'll get to grips with that shortly but we begin with some sad news day one of the prestigious off road event

the car rally has been marred by the death of a rider horror game martinez seen here at the start line in mortal plata argentina died after running off course tragically crushing the open sewer line where a local was thirty eight years old the trunk to be overshadowing a memorable day for. winning the opening stage by five seconds from veteran polish christophe how off chits while in the bike francisco lopez is them on the couch after the chilean up thriller rider holding off reigning champion mark of spain. we now know all twelve squads in the n.f.l. the last of the dozen to replace the new york giants doing so thanks to a no nonsense display against dallas after less than stellar regular seasons to date both teams entered the clash knowing it was do or die time. the home side

started as they meant to continue giants quarterback eli manning instrumental all day long though victor cruz still have plenty to do after this past the speedster taking at home four yards for the opening touched on two more big scores would follow before the end of the second quarter york twenty one points for the good times to. charge thirty one fourteen how it would eventually end new york and make it into the knockout stages for the first time since two thousand and eight while dallas her left through a second straight season with i.p.l. football. thing stateside but attending to n.b.a. basketball now where chicago are living up to their preseason billing the bulls are winning their third straight game in blistering fashion seeing off memphis by a forty point margin in their home opener the host truly taking the bull by the horns in the first quarter it's boring their opponents twenty five twelve the next couple of periods would bring gets more misery for the grizzlies. carlos boozer

brewer top scoring with seventeen points of pace at the united center. from brewer making it so easy for forty four bowls in the third. a forty point advantage that they would firmly hold on to one zero four sixty four the final of one side it's. now ice hockey is normally a sport readily associated with milan but that could be set to change this year when milan. joins the kontinental hockey league europe's premier competition robert for dummy and travel to italy in twenty eleven to find out more. these game moments are twenty years old the goal scored with no end of skill in essence they gave us hokey played at a high level the surprising part it's not canada. or russia

it's italy. it's the players claiming one of their numerous domestic titles in style from the early ninety's. been almost famous as a big i mean we have a very long history about hockey and in milan all in milan or at the very very long because we started winning the day nineteen twenty three the first being there was built in milan zero zero zero and when we were one of the the first you know out of europe the hockey fans here in the land of the game are excited by this game and probably there's some people being fired a bit sick of football for other reasons saw there some kind of research for new motions and i believe i saw kids this effort for that nevertheless i still keep still some distance from topping fill both in terms of popularity here a sentiment echoed by

a person from the moment of the game canada now calls me on the phone it's play with love but because it's it's still very under appreciated you don't get the same emotion you know and so you can be mad for a minute but it passes very quickly as opposed to a canadian hockey match it's talked about for you know for months if not for the whole season and so it's that is a huge difference in watching a canadian game versus an italian game this is the steadily into room one of the main venues for the two thousand and six winter olympic program of years own and there is barely a reminder. of the epic hockey battles the two place here the ice rink was removed soon after the games finished allowing the stadium to become the new home for the year ventus and three no food book clubs one hundred miles east however things brighter local outfit milan there are some blue are set to join the kontinental

hockey league in twenty twelve i believe a group that we have been agreed that we have a couple minutes in terms of the organization to join the league of course it is not going to be a very good team but. we have time to develop. in two thousand and six winter olympics didn't affect the popularity of fucking the country at all of course the games were a great event for the telling people and the stadiums are renovated and a lot of infrastructure developed so some local clubs did get a lot there but not the telling game as a whole in this respect the kitchen was another chance for us not only for milan but for the entire country to take a significant step forward you know they don't appear to be. the addition of risk blue may seem like a small step for the kid but for the club itself it is quite simply and message fleet robert gordon r.t. . italy. correspondent robert was

a busy mom this year he is not here to remind us about one of the most thrilling events of the year the yalta stage of the cliff diving world series the last stop of the season turning into a breathtaking spectacle on one which put a russian daredevil very much in the spotlight take a look at this. fillings that's why the sport's most prestigious competition the red sirius keeps traveling all across the planet to discover new locations they're taking events for the final stage of the season thirteen high flyers made their way to the swallows nest castle one of ukraine's main places of interest on the shore of the black sea. englishman. who entered the event as the new. force to.

seeing the briton retain his world title two weeks ago. and the men. in. russia still feel are. looking to claim their first event when gary hans as. he really shines with the more difficult. it was the lead up to the first three rounds of the competition. execution. ahead of front and. the top six now left to do better in. retirement once again he's back the so-called triple quad. who stole the show at sunday's event demonstrating one of the hardest. ever seen.

with blank entry the russian entering the water with his head held high the outcome before the judges at. their scores at first still. placed podium finish of the season with a twenty seven year old and force of his career i have or it turned out to be more than just a win suit claiming the high still didn't score the competition has ever seen. most it's not my first win but it's definitely the most precious one for me i'm second in the overall standings but here i'm not i've proved to be the best it's a very happy moment for me i've been here before you all to is an incredible place this time i had my family a lot of my friends and my trainers came over to support me so i was a little nervous at first but out there on the platform which i left to told how humans and just concentrated on my diet was while i was. preparing for my dive so

it was kind of strange knowing that the pressure of the series was off everyone else is fighting for places and and i was just taken as an end of a vigil competition autumn just perfectly today he's got tense on throughout his dives that's as good as it gets is scored the highest score ever gary has never scored so not even his big dives and he's diving good so often didn't win big time and it didn't matter if gary was diving good or not when after winning the first two stages this year nine time world champion early in the kid was forced to leave the conclusion due to injury but he's now recovered meaning the twenty twelve season is gearing out to be one of the most thrilling on record. the world cleat delving series twenty eleven have just come to an end with all the best efforts of the sport having taken their owners but the point is that each of those who take

part in this miss no rising competition can be safely called an outstanding sportsman roberts more than r t ukraine. simply amazing pictures well all the world weather is next here on twenty four hour r.t. .

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global news twenty four seven. with me. president barack obama has signed a controversial defense bill that basically allows the indefinite detention of terror suspects the us president has said he has a serious reservations on some professions regarding the treatment of detainees but . reports during his time in office obama's shown he's not always good to his work . 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 a 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.