now today is the ninth anniversary of the first detainees arriving at guantanamo bay even though obama signed a bill to close the prison when he first came into office two years later prisoners are still there so why won't the government follow through ari perhaps unwilling to face our own actions or to speak with lawrence wilkerson about the anniversary and today get most protesters took to the streets of d.c. just like they do every year but now they're protesting for the nine years straight are they finally getting discouraged we're going to speak with one of the protesters to get their take on this anniversary as well and the media's eyes were on julian assad today as arrangements were made before his extradition hearing next month but also is living in a mansion why is nobody focusing on bradley manning he's been held in solitary confinement since july so we're going to discuss the differences with kevin zeese also secretary of state hillary clinton made a surprise visit to yemen the first visit by secretary of state since one thousand nine hundred ninety but it's all the talk of

they were handing detainees but what found in his three sheen your men who had no dinner and have. only code names and they do the actual and para geisha. but they order. the pete young soldiers around on how you handle the detainees when the actual interrogation isn't going on. and they were ordered to prise them. sleep. forty eight hours. keep them blindfolded. jerk them around make them stand make noise. take your weapon just you may shoot the person right in the head at that time. he thought he had a duty to stay out of that. activity. is a violation of international law. that's what you want to soldiers to do. more if you want to be a democratic society than to find obedience to authority. and you see that an order is illegal and you're being ordered to commit a crime don't do it. yet they make the prosecution fears that a light sentence or make will encourage other immigrant soldiers to desert the defense argues. had the right to obey his own conscience there's an orders from his commanding officers that a ten person jury will hear testimony tomorrow from fort stewart georgia

how many political prisoners she know how many detainees are there. but also i insisted nothing to report general. once and what commander don't you know we are at war he asked me. he like i couldn't help myself and i said both of them did he want war are you talking about generally when i mean i know it's possible to declare war against neighboring countries or scene but not against our own countrymen. went in with. very well he said you're dismissed wait in the next room but it may be then met with most senior officers in my unit and with his staff. and then he informed me that the military junk i had decided that i should report to army headquarters and relinquish my command think it went in to get him. it will simply have a thimbleful i was cord marshall and accused of dereliction of military duty to me to get in dereliction of military duty it made. me that i was sentenced to five years in prison because. i went to prison but endured persecution slander threats of execution the scene i mean and spent seventeen years in exile. we're going to have

going to guantanamo bay there are thirty yemeni detainees who have been cleared who are not allowing to return to the country because it's not stable enough who knows do you think that be a smart diplomatic political move to let those detainees go back in terms of winning over hearts and minds i guess you could say perhaps could be a boon for public diplomacy but wiki leaks shows that isn't ready to play ball necessarily on guantanamo detainees so you know it's a decision that's going to be made and it's not going to be made in washington our general thank you so much for joining us definitely an interesting surprise trip by hillary clinton thank you thanks so much well still to come on tonight's show the chinese decided to show off a new stealth fighter jet just as the u.s. secretary of defense was visiting to try to decipher the meaning of that just a moment and a column in today's wall street journal path along here talking to chinese that women make better mothers the u.s. women and is that why china is kicking our ass of the. there were tons filled with joy. with parades and mar

allegations by these detainees were released on redacted that it would reveal cia sources and methods and confidential and classified conditions of confinement that terrorist out in the world would be able to look at what happened to these detainees and then train against these techniques their release of this information will be propaganda for al qaeda which is the most remarkable argument if the government can withhold information because its release would aid enemy propaganda that means that the worse and more criminal the government conduct is the more protected it is from disclosure and that's not any way to run a democracy. or very quickly to because they're running out of time i want to squeeze omar a question in does this say to you that the courts here are complicit that they're ok with helping the government cover up this information or you know quite the opposite is it sometimes that these federal judges become the victims because the cia or the government uses things like state secrets national security and essentially says you're not trusted with this information i don't

years ago awaiting a trial the afternoon president obama recently signed away his right to bring detainees to u.s. soil making it unlikely that any of them will see a trial or freedom any time soon some argue the u.s. violates cuba's sovereignty for this reason because this is the only latin american country for the past over this past fifty years has said you know then you straight to the eye of the american government or as they would say the american empire a country cubans believe should give rights to its detainees and give back the land that's right fully there is to handcuff this r t washington d.c. . well human rights groups that held a rally of the white house calling for contango bay prison to be clones they march to represent three hundred seventy three men still being held captive christine fastener was that. there's a list. of all they call themselves the anti torture on to this is now with a group called witness against torture and made its yearly pilgrimage here to washington d.c. to bring attention to the fact that the detention facility at guantanamo bay is still open ther

the other enhanced interrogation techniques were building the cases independent of anything the detainees said while they were being tortured suddenly i knew officials appointed above me that said look president bush said we don't torture and if he said we don't then who are you to question the president so you should be using that information to prosecute these people and that's when i said enough's enough it's been a real disappointment for me with the obama administration you know he said in january of two thousand and nine within one year will close guantanamo that was two years ago so he made some backbone as well to stand up to congress and tell him that he's the executive that is his decision and to wrap this problem up it's been nine years which is just far too long there are one hundred seventy three men act one ton of you may have seen recently as secretary of state hillary clinton criticize the russians for prosecuting the yukos executive for a second time he's been in court twice you've got one hundred seventy three minute guantanamo they've been there for nine years that have

saudi arabia has taken many of the detainees. they have a program that they say we engineers them to be proper citizens and no longer terrorists. that is only mildly successful, to put it nicely. some of these detainees have gone on to go back to terrorism. in fact, some of them form the core members of the al qaeda which is currently destabilizing yemen. host: n.y., go ahead. caller: yes, with the base closings, which the government trying to save money and closing down bases, if they can close the bases down around the world, would it be possible for obama to say it is not economically feasible to have all of these bases and close down guantanamo as one of those bases? would it need an act of congress to close that base? guest: the obama administration can close guantanamo. again, they do not want to close the base. they want to close down the detention facility that has the prisoners. to close the detention facility, you need to figure out what to do with the prisoners. congress is we cannot send them to federal prisons in the

president obama recently signed away his right to bring detainees to u.s. soil making it unlikely that any of them will see a trial or freedom any time soon some argue the u.s. violates cuba's sovereignty for this reason because this is the only latin american country for the past over this past fifty years has said you know then you straight to the eye of. or as they would say the american empire a country cubans believe should give rights to its detainees and give back the land that's right there. washington d.c. . human rights activists have been holding a symbolic demonstration in front of the want calling for guantanamo bay to close for good they will in orange jumpsuits to represent his inmates well christine freezone was that. they call themselves anti torture or with a group called witness against torture and made its yearly pilgrimage here to washington d.c. to bring attention to the fact that the detention facility at guantanamo bay is still open there are in fact one hundred seventy three men still detained there and they're represented by people

holding camp whereby were brought in the detainees are brought in separately and we meet in trailers. so what we know is what we hear from them and what the conditions are like. unfortunately there is a lot of building work is going on in guantanamo right now which leads us to believe that it's nowhere near closing as obama would have promised back in two thousand and nine when he took office the fortunate. the men say that everything has improved conditions have definitely improved since two thousand and five which was probably the worst year for the men there and what reason are you given for not being able to go inside the column rules change every time you go to guantanamo every time we go there's a new a new rule that we have to abide by or remeet them differently in different locations so while lawyers were previously meeting with their clients in the camps we were not told or a direct reason why but apparently this makes it easier to transport the men it makes it safer. they don't give us direct reasons i'm not someone who's interested in the prisons about prisoners' rights in

bob, don't forget that nearly 30% of the detainees who have been returned to the country they came from have reentered the fight. that's unacceptable. >> schieffer: john mccain, welcome back. glad to have you. hope we'll have you more frequently than over the past year. >> thank you, my friend. >> schieffer: when we come back, we'll be talking to chuck schumer one of the key democrats in the senator about a lot of the same things. >> woman: good night, gluttony-- a farewell long awaited. good night, stuffy. >> ( yawning ) >> good night, outdated. >> ( click ) >> good night, old luxury and all of your wares. good night, bygones everywhere. >> ( engine revs ) >> good morning, illumination. good morning, innovation. good morning, unequaled inspiration. >> ( heartbeats ) [ male announcer ] a chicken coop: the unlikely birthplace of a fundamental idea. it's where ethel percy andrus found a retired teacher living because she could afford nothing else. ethel couldn't ignore the clear need for health and financial security. and it inspired her to found aarp. for over 50 years, we've continued t

president obama recently signed away his right to bring detainees to u.s. soil making it unlikely that any of them will see a trial or freedom any time soon some argue the u.s. violates cuba sovereignty for this reason because this is the only latin american country for the past over this past fifty years has said you know then you straight to the. of the american government or as they would say the american empire a country cubans believe should give rates to its detainees and give back the land that's right fully there is jan have to start t. washington d.c. . author of the worthington who brought to light the personal stories of some detainees says graham tunnelers sole aim was to hold people indefinitely while flying below the human rights. it was set up outside the law it was placed on a moat deliberately so that it was beyond the reach of the u.s. courts beyond the reach of lawyers so they could do what they wanted with these people the whole point of setting it up by the bush administration was to create a new category of human being in detention who

camps any longer what we do is meet them in a separate holding camp whereby were brought in the detainees are brought in separately and we meet in trailers so what we know is what we hear from them and what the conditions are like unfortunately there is a lot of building more going on in guantanamo right now which leads us to believe that it's nowhere near closing as obama promised back in two thousand and nine when he took office a lot of the details that we've heard about the treatment that terror suspects have been subjected to in guantanamo bay has been truly shocking i'm told that waterboarding and other forms of torture have you met people who was subjected to these forms of interrogation absolutely these these methods of interrogation the enhanced interrogation techniques as they're so referred did not happen to the minority they happen to the majority so what happens is you get instructors who are interrogating guards who are trained in these techniques that are actually use in military training to help army men and women resist interrogation being used on these men in guantanamo

>> the first guantanamo detainee has been jailed for life. ghailani's legal team promises an appeal for his sentence. dominick caine reports. >> ahmed ghailani is jailed. he is responsible -- accused of a bombing that killed over 200 people. >> ghailani was a vital member of a cell that murdered 224 innocent people and wounded thousands more in 1998 bomb lingsings -- bombings in kenya and tanzania. >> he is the first detainee to face trial in a u.s. civilian court. much of the evidence obtained about him was withheld from his trial. he was acquitted of 284 other charges. his defense team continues to protest his innocence. >> our client was just sentenced to life without parol in a federal prison. today we still believe our client is innocent. >> ghailani's lawyer asked for lienencey on account of torture they say he suffered repeatedly while he was in custody. the judge repeated this saying whatever suffering he endured falede -- paled in compare ton so what he -- to the suffering he depafe to others. >> president obama has been making his a

the detainee was bundled into a car where he sent between two men in the special security force said you miss me the detainee was guarded by two special services officers and the driver of the car had no room for. the raven in russia i was considered to be a bird who brought on happiness that's why people called a black raven the model on which this car was based was presented to soviet russia by henry ford. was shown in the car in the kremlin in one thousand thirty three. plated time before he touched the grill and wondered why they were so much chrome on it. it was told that in that way soviet engineers had wanted south to forward. too much chrome was not a good idea as ford does he order to perform. this was the only mass produced car in the country at the time it was used both as a taxi and as a limousine for big special service officers also made use of the ominous vehicle. marguerita father raised her almost as he would a boy he taught her to swim run and stick up for herself. was a communist worthy of the title he was proud of his party membership but when indiscriminate arres