the civil war commission. >> suarez: but were some of the frustrations faced by frederic aiken echoedsome of the things that you heard uniformed jags talking about coming away from the early years of this process? well, i think they were. having been a defense counsel, i think you're always frustrated. but i think this movie is not an allegorry for guantanamo and jim has told you he wrote it before, but there certainly are echoes. there are the issues in the movie do resonate today, i think, because it's a time of stress and stress on the government and how the government reacts, and that's what i think is most interesting about the film. >> ray, when i first wrote it, people would say, "fascinating story. hi no idea this took place." and nicely told, but "what's its relevance to today?" i heard that over and over again the first eight years. after september 11 2001 i never heard that. >> suarez: the issue of whether justice is done, whether it's seen to be done, and the public's own desires was taken on head-on in the movie, though, and in one scene we see johnson, the former attorne