insurgency but international pressure on assad to step down is mounting. and gears up its forces. a controversial. policy in most of europe but still used by british police black community leaders screaming racism those who are most often considered suspicious believe they are being picked on because of their race. to the chief prosecutor. colonel morris davis he shed the light on some of the methods used in the prison and why and explain to me why he resigned. we're sitting down with morris davis a man of a very interesting career he was the chief prosecutor for the military tribunals or guantanamo bay in two thousand and seven he resigned over his objection to the use

of evidence obtained by torture and to what he saw as growing political interference in those military tribunals now he says although president obama promised to shut down guantanamo he doesn't have the using colonel davis his own terms the balls to do that colonel davis could you clarify about the latest statement where i'm sure 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 gone tomorrow still open the military commissions have resumed and in my view the president just didn't have the balls to follow through with 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 there are too dangerous we can't have them in the u.s. so while we begged other countries to help us out and take some 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 tell 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. like 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 by killing an american with a drone strike in yemen the but why. he was correct which is just. astounding that an american president can make the unilateral decision that an american saying it was a really bad guy he deserved 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 fire a missile and kill american and bystanders it would just anwar all 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 us 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 other than the cockpit it's how they're used that 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 it if it has 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 it's 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's the no 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 would claim to be the champion of the rules and all but it seems that were a champion of the rule of law when we're trying to apply it to others not so much. 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 where candidates said they would resume waterboarding so you know we love to criticize other countries. who were not so good at holding up the

mirror torso they were the chief prosecutor at guantanamo i was just wondering what was the ratio of people who got into one ton of four 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 or called 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 go on time no 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 to kuantan about some point in time more than six hundred have been released or 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 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 with us on a different note if president obama during his next presidential campaign again promises to shut down guantanamo and says well this time yes we will 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 had 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 i have to. 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 obama sign on fire and i put up another one so 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 a person to anything he says while he is in love drunk or running for office or all three at the same time for 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. when clinton comfortable question leads to a grave accusation the world who is more xeno following. the president who isn't supposed to hide anything. or it's someone asking him why do you make

a secret out but when the powers to be suppress the voice of those who think different. when you get experiencing very serious problems off of the saakashvili government came to power in two thousand and three if you put it from a book that was when the problems began piling up. interviews were now off limits to our journalists they were often be set up and humiliated in public when the attempt to protect property puts life in real danger that we have been deprived of the only means of earning a living i have gone to the original sit all the papers. at the little ice the ownership rights on the basis of companies freedom becomes just a stage prop. no it's not about spilling blood. from just the war about hurricanes from one side and fears

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a black community leaders of screaming racism those who are most often considered suspicious while authorities believe that they are being picked on because of their skin color. with your latest from the world of sports i do see that tiger woods toilet is up this one might imagine he's feeling rather flushed absolutely right his toilet his sink a lot from his former high school with his ex-wife is all for sale because of a charity event i must stress it's clear hasn't gone down the toilet that much that he has to sell his toilet more not the. bat. great to have been you with us plenty more here coming up on twenty four hour r t

this is this for more on the toilet scandal in just a moment but these are men that like going nowhere the man who silverstein's and eats most successful fulfilling reading history signs on for another two years later for. rolling along the real madrid's quest for their first spanish league and cup double since the eighty's remains a truck with victory over my guy in the cup of the last sixteen. home with the n.b.a. finally returning to the hardwood stateside we look at how that's affected the russian basketball league. let's start with the news that he will remain in the petersburg hot seat for two more seasons great news for the club the italian is widely regarded as the reason the team are reigning russian football champions the italians current contract expires at the end of this season having spearheaded an eight since two thousand and nine time they won the russian championship for only

the second time the russian cup the russian super cup is also qualified for the champions league playoffs for the first time in their history this season his charge is currently set top of the current standings in the russian. in spain real madrid have picked their spot in the last eight of the cup of the last collective costs seeing off for to get following choose this second leg and contract their premier league leaders headed into the clash with a three two advantage but the fact that they had won twenty over the last two years in all competitions meaning confidence wasn't lacking and when you're winning things like this tend to happen cream benzema netting the only goal of the game seventy two minutes and goalkeeper willie coverdell oh sure a few nightmares after the one the reaal of the night for two overall the quarter finals await. let's move to south america where the car rally house reached

northern argentina on the merry go round at the top of the bike section shows no signs of halting following stage nine french mint several for a returning to the overall standings summit's on the day the eleven year veteran finishing the seven hundred twenty two kilometer run from two to forgets the four minutes in front of the fending champion mark colvin of spain one another sponsored a one boortz completed the podium american robby gordon meanwhile claimed victory on the day in the car section over a leader stephan peter hans of france a second but means top overall with a six minute advantage over gordon while spaniard nani roma came home in third. the next room with the p.c.'s in may not rev into action until april but you can be right or volunteer rossi is already counting down the days the nine time world champion him into shine at the opening pre-season test of and in malaysia at the end of this month the italian with redemption on his mind after finishing

a disappointing seventh overall. spike that rossi is optimistic about the upcoming event with the moto g.p. class returning to one thousand c.c. engines from last season's eight hundred c.c. . for sure. we would be important. for sure. the bike. would be better to always impossible be competitive from the first test the but i think we will. get information before for war and the period before for the first race this label miracle that is tim thibeault continues in the n.f.l. with the quarterback winning in the n.f.l. playoffs despite his technically on refined style of play that divides christian quarterback also putting the recent stunning twenty nine twenty three overtime victory against pittsburgh to the side to focus on the heavily favored new england

patriots on saturday in the grand scheme of things it's one game and it's a playoff game so it's. but i'm not going to look too much into it it's just one game and we've got another big win this week. you know. to be exciting because you're playing new england patriots and we get a chance to play tom brady. and you know it's another round in the playoffs and that's exciting. that brings us to the hardwood where the shock of choose the evening in the n.b.a. saw the struggling golden state forget all about their recent woes to be the star laden miami heat in california the hosts well they're in control for the majority of the game even dwayne wade season high thirty four points not enough for the heat to make it nine wins from their past ten games dorell wright mental for the warriors scoring twenty points on the night including this effort from beyond the arc to tie the game at ninety six apiece with just thirty one seconds to go here is

in the fourth quarter that took the much into overtime right to the fore here as well adding five of the fifteen points the winners eclipsing their one hundred eleven one zero six golden state how it ended up. so the n.b.a. is in full swing after months of daughter over whether would go ahead and roll the season the luck though just a memory with players returning to north america after seeing action in other leagues across the world in the meantime richard porte fleet's reports now on the local impact of. russian basketball fans of hardly been affected by the resumption of the n.b.a. as very few stars came to become true in the first place but a few players like andre carolyn go have decided to stay in europe robin the move back stateside and a k forty seven s. decision to stay puts has certainly earned the praise of one of his rivals i think there's a lot about russian gas war thing that overseas loyalty to the country and so for

that i think it's great. that some of make that decision and it could be good for the sport especially in russia so. he will be only russian club that was seriously affected by resumption of the n.b.a. as bale a spare star center to the famous golfer to rejoin the denver nuggets however his former teammate nielsen has the russian made the right move in going back stateside i think age plays like his own course it is going to go for a number and there's no derail india is the best league in the world and he's trying to make his own nation over there and we everyone here wishing nothing but the best there was seriously any such you could go on the same same leave on all counts chris quinn joined him key just before the account started the point guard signed a one year contracts so he wouldn't have been able to return stateside even if it wanted to know whether the new orleans native says the suspension of the n.b.a.

has given him a wonderful opportunity he would have otherwise never really experienced and learned a lot you know on the court and off the court was a lot different here than in the n.b.a. the style of play is different. and also you know just into a new culture you know while it's been a little bit of a challenge for myself and my family it's been fun as well you know living in the united states all my life you know it's it's great to to get out and you know see the new culture and see different things and you know it can only make your life experience that much better russian clubs were hardly affected by the resumption of the n.b.a. mainly because so. few players left america to find work in europe this was partly due to the high wage demands of the players but also due to very high insurance costs which puts a lot of potential clubs of hiring some of the n.b.a.'s top talents nevertheless nielsen believes the fan certainly got their money's worth during the lockout it's now been over two years now and flew out was the most interesting for outsiders i

think especially just to watch some of those guards them you know because it kind of shows at the level of european braswell there's a lot of good players from the n.b.a. come over and couldn't get it done and they've gone back and done well this shows that it's a bit of a difference to all of us when some some players are better suited here and vice versa unfortunately russian basketball fans weren't able to enjoy the same high profile names but russian hockey fans were able to witness during the n.h.l. lockout in two thousand and four when the lights have been simpler club ear and public played in russia. nevertheless the n.b.a. lockout has given fans the chance to witness some of russia's best players again and for fans of serious car moscow they're in for not a bonus but kirilenko definitely staying with the army to be end of the season richard don't see the moscow region. bargain hunters suddenly got the chance to search out a few deals this weekend on likely backyard tiger woods' ex-wife ellen nordegren

donating items once belonging to her former husband for resale by a nonprofit organization decorations up horse tree and other items that were in the former couple's twelve million dollar home up for grabs in florida some people ting off their shopping day early arriving before the doors opened at eight thirty in the morning the sale happening following the end of the couple's marriage after a sex scandal involving tiger in two thousand and nine more diagrams will be arriving for purchase later in the week. if you're in the west palm beach area while i go along you might even find a few bargains for yourself that has all the sports now i'll see you in two hours.

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