talk about it and that was lieutenant colonel anthony shaffer senior fellow at the center for advanced defense studies. all right so it's really important angles to look at this from human rights violations are taking place in abundance freedoms for americans have been cut back and yet there are a whole lot of people unsure about how and what we have achieved earlier i spoke to the investigative journalist and author of the guantanamo files and he worthington he was in london and to start things off i asked him a pretty simple question where exactly is this country ten years later post nine eleven her system. well it's just a masterly we have a whole load of problematic legacy issues really left by the bush administration which the obama administration has found a very difficult to deal with one side of the most kind of iconoclast presume the soldiers will not help the soldiers terrorists were not held as criminals people were held as enemy combatants without rights president obama has said. it remains a unique and offensive way of holding people nobody else who claims to be a civilized country does s

on this i spoke earlier to lieutenant colonel anthony shaffer a senior fellow at the center for advanced defense studies he has a lot of experience in the field and i asked him what the u.s. has learned and where it is still lacking when it comes to gathering intelligence here's what he had to say. well we've learned that the threat no learns very quickly how to adapt i don't believe that we've invested well in this big trillion dollars we spent over the past ten years because there's the old american adage you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink so while i think that we've paid a lot of money relating to conducting operations overseas afghanistan i do believe we should've declared victory in zero three and left iraq would be intel was not there to justify the action and now at this point we're looking at these new threats were were not as well prepared as we should and let me let me answer that in two parts first. we've made a lot of intelligence reforms they've changed the community they've added resources but they've not change the culture that's why you saw the near miss of the fai