we're going to have to start here let me just professor jules folke l l o l e is a full professor of international law at university it's for he's also the vice president of the center for us to show right wing always. midnight exhausted letters of the judge is not a life i want to just talk you this one would testify to the best. the underlying issue this case is really whether the united states government will comply with its international obligations treaty obligations and international law . and therefore i would have testified that sought to make his absence from his unit was authorized under international under the treaties which we have signed and under the president which we are still. after work. at the nuremberg tribunals which the united states government was the chief prosecutor of decided that a soldier or a command or citizen has obligations under international law then are higher than their duty to obey the best aquash superior orders even. cannot be considered in mitigation where crimes as shocking and extensive has been committed consciously ruthlessly understanding