he too is now a resident of guantanamo bay. abu faraj al libi was captured in 2005, he then joined his predecessors in guantanamo bay. hamza rabia was killed six months in pakistan, then came the longest-running al qaeda number three, abu laith al-libi. he was killed in january 2008. that gave sheikh al-masri his lead, after being killed, followed by, as we said, rahman, whose killing was reported this weekend. now, there's a lot of issues around these predator drone strikes, how many innocents they kill, how many times they target these people and get an innocent target. there's a lot of stuff to wonder about the legality of these killings, it's very, very dubious to say the least. are they assassinations prohibited by american law or is this acceptable method of war against a terror group that attacked the united states, plenty to wonder there, but what is not in doubt, is if you move up to al qaeda number three, which as we said, without osama bin laden is now al qaeda number two, you have absolutely no chance of collecting

the job i had as the executive to return of the guantanamo task force in 2009 was to bring together career professionals and compile all of the information that have benefited over the course of several years but each detainee. something that hadn't been done before, and to bring that information together in one place or give that information a fresh independent and objective review. we've taken that information and under my leadership and under the guidelines we adopted in the innovation effort we looked at that information. it was my responsibility to ensure that was done in and in partial indian unbiased we've all the information was reviewed that was done by an approach that every dissenting board disparate opinion or view and we took that information and presented it to the group of senior level decision makers along with our recommendation and the decisions are made based on that information by the senior level group or review panel on six different agencies. the result on that over the course of the year is all 240 detainees were given a disposition and every single case every detai

david hicks was held for five years at guantanamo bay. he should not be allowed to profit from a book. in australia, that infringes a law which prohibits convicted criminals profiting from their crimes. what the defense will be arguing is that the conviction where he pleaded guilty to providing material support for terrorism is invalid because the military commission he appeared before at guantanamo bay is invalid. it is an interesting global test case. if the australian courts were to favor, itavid hicks' would cast legal doubt on the military commission process at guantanamo bay. >> is there much public support for mr. hicks in australia? >> there is some support for david hicks in australia. he is a shy man. he does not appear in public often. he did appear at a festival a few months ago to talk about his book. at the end of his talk, he received a standing ovation. that was criticized, especially by right-wing commentators. they think that rather than concentrating on the five years he spent at guantanamo bay, where he claims he was t

no one was water boarded guantanamo by the u.s. military that no one was was was water boarded at guantanamo period three. now we've heard of the so-called enhanced interrogation techniques of which waterboarding is just one they also include sleep deprivation hanging people from a row banging them into the walls of the cell where the all of that only happened at cia black sites it's but admit it they call it sheikh mohammad was water boarded one hundred eighty three times while held at one of these sites and former president bush admitted to approving and ordering the use of waterboarding but a new report in two thousand just that there may be much more to this story more of the techniques and where they were used this includes a little known testimony by former get mo detainee. before the house committee on foreign affairs where he described not waterboarding but a form of water treatment no it's not waterboarding it's called water treatment. you were there was a book and you were there was a book answer was a cloth put over your

i don't know whether he has been accused or is responsible of releasing the guantanamo records that were released by wiki leaks last week. manning started his leaking career with a videotape that he released of the tape that highly upset him of a united states helicopter attack in baghdad in which several civilians were killed including two reuters journalists on the ground. his job in bad debt was to work on two military laptop computers and he along with 500,000 other people had a security clearance that permitted him access to classified databases allowing so many people access to classified material is apparently a reaction to the post 9/11 determination that the intelligence agencies weren't sharing information. they have gone overboard and share it with lots of people but i don't know how you are supposed to keep a secret that is known by 500,000 other people. manning allegedly copied the data bases of these military communications onto regrettable -- rewriteable cds that contain his lady gaga music. he raise that music and loaded up government secrets. he is now in jail in fort le

of the 240 detainees subject to the refusal by far the single largest nationality represented at guantÁnamowere from yemen. and this was a problem that existed before 2009. in other words prior to 2009, government officials had struggled with how to, how to handle the disposition of the substantial number of yemen detainees. over the course of that year. task force effort, we were very aware of a number of different factors. one, that the situation, the security situation in yemen was continuing to deteriorate over the course of that year and by december of 2009, we were quite aware of the concerns that the intelligence community and our military leaders were expressing about yemen. we were also quite aware that our record of success and the habeas court, the number of yemeni detainees as well as others were challenging the lawfulness of the detention, and we were being briefed by the department of justice about how those cases were going. at one point in september 2009 every call that we were approximately eight successful defenses versus 31 losses in the federal courts and there was a rea

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some people say we should close guantanamo.y opinion is we ought to double guantanamo. >> now, romney is saying that maybe terrorists should be tried here. >> if indeed gadhafi goes down, you think the new government should hand over to whom? >> well, the united states of america would be my first choice. we would try him here and see that justice is done. >> jonathan, you've been writing about this for a few days. what gives here? >> okay, so when i wrote about this yesterday, i made the same observation that you just showed to the viewers. and i got push back from the romney campaign. his spokesperson -- >> really? >> andrea saul wanted it make a distinct that governor rom ree, the first slip you showed was from a republican debate in 2007, he was talking about 9/11 terrorists. what he is saying now, the distinction, because of the lockerbie bomb certain a 9/11 terrorist, we can't go to guantanamo bay and therefore he should come to the united states. what makes this so interesting and why i push back on their push back, he i

the nsa, matthew olsen directed the task force overseeing the administration's detainees at the guantanamo bay. a vote is not expected until the senate returns from its august recess. this is an hour and 35 minutes. >> the hearing will come to order. the process will be as follows. i'll make remarks, the vice chairman makes remarks, and then we'll call on the distinguished senator from south dakota for remarks, and then we will proceed. i trust that is agreeable with everybody. the committee meets today to consider the president's nomination of matt olsen to be the director of the national counterterrorism center. here's currently in the security agency holding a number of senior positions in the department of justice including the national security division and the federal bureau of investigation. mr. olsen appeared as a witness before this committee previously and briefed members and staff over the last several years. i'd like to welcome him back to this committee. i'd like to begin today by discussing the current terrorist threat and the role of what we call nctc, which mr. olsen will b

begg who spent three years in guantanamo and other prisons says he himself witnessed british intelligence agents being complicit. they were physically present when i was being abused they saw my shot at my shore my. guns pointed at me i was subject to the sounds of women screaming i was let the leap was my wife being tortured i am completely one hundred percent sure that i would not have gone to guantanamo or to bugger up had it not been for the involvement of british intelligence services i am the head of an organization called caged prisoners in which we have been campaigning for people to take without charge or trial by the us we have highlighted over thirty cases that include syria egypt. morocco pakistan in which british intelligence services have been involved in or have been complicit where people have been abused in these countries and we have offered this information to the police in torah law you can a policy adviser for amnesty international in london says the inquiry announced into the torture and again sions is fundamentally flawed and there are a few key reasons why the inqu

courts by people who were detained in guantanamo completely without charges by people who were kidnapped and taken to u.s. black torture sites like mahara are in a canadian citizen and like the relatives of three prisoners at guantanamo who died in two thousand and six none of these people have been able to convince a court in the united states to allow their legitimate lawsuits to go forward and this is in each case because the obama administration department of justice has opposed these inquiries and their justification is always national security so that is in effect and of all the cables to a lot of the almost against the edges with the legislation here but in a way does that give you hope for some sort of optimism because if this has been brought to light then perhaps could it not influence of all it was future wave the u.s. involvement in the likes of iraq and afghanistan. well of course bringing all of this to light is extremely important because after all these occupations only continue based on people feeling that they're legitimate i think they're profoundly immoral lemon just

told the former guantanamo detainees. their story still to come but first president urging syria's leader bashar assad to kick start reforms and end the violence in his country before it's too late to reach him if it was giving an extensive interview to as well as. radio and georgian t.v. channel peak here's a preview for you and the full version of this interview is coming up in about an hour from now. unfortunately the situation in syria has taken a dramatic turn we real politicians should follow developments gadhafi gave violent orders to destroy the opposition the syrian president gave no such orders unfortunately a lot of people are dying in syria this is our biggest concern in my private conversation with the president of syria and in the private letters i sent him i discussed the same ideas reforms need to be carried out he should establish peace with the opposition establish peace in the country and create a modern state if he fails to do that then a sad future awaits him and at the end of the day we'll have to ma

in program in guantanamo and they were physically present when i was being abused he saw my. lecture. me they saw. according to policy documents seen by the guardian newspaper senior m i five and m i six agents were asked to weigh up the quality of information they might obtain with the level of mistreatment a prisoner would suffer and if it was worth it to go ahead amnesty international says there's a mounting pile of credible evidence on the extent to which britain was involved in torture there's yet another document that's been hidden for a very long time that's just been released that shows that there was you know perhaps circumstances in which. you know ministers were very senior officials authorised agents to participate and in situations where it was more likely than not the torture would occur there's a police investigation into torture allegations under way and as soon as that's finished an inquiry will begin but it's already come under fire the policy on interrogation and all the relevant documents may not be made public which has angered human rights groups so much

when obama said he would close guantanamo bay within a year, still open.s reluctant to use the term, war on terrorism. he called them overseas contingency operations, man caused disasters. how are we to interpret that? is there a fear our enemies may not like us? or a belief system if we are nicer to them, they will be nicer to us? where does that come from? >> i think some people, there were some in our administration who felt this way, i wasn't one. this notion that somehow global warming was a major cause of recruitment -- that guantanamo bay was a major cause of a recruitment tool for al-qaeda. i don't think that is true. my experience in that part of the world is people are more likely to respond if they respect and/or fear the power of the united states. and the notion that somehow operating guantanamo, which is, as you mentioned, probably a much more friendly environment and comfortable situation for most of those prisoners than would be any facility in their home country. >> sean: is it fair to say that president obama has a pre9/11 mentality? >> t

or president obama's pledge to close guantanamo on the secret overseas cia prisons calls are increasing for him to reexamine the treatment of prisoners detained as part of the so-called war on terror being held inside the united states with little public scrutiny of the bush administration open to secretive prisons and indiana and illinois newness communication management units or cmu is that are designed to severely restrict personal communication with family members the media and the outside world dozens of muslim men are still being held at the cmu this is well as other person or secluding environmental and animal rights activists the government's provided little information about the special prison units a search on the bureau of prisons website yields just one document even mentioning the program only a handful of news articles have covered what's been described as a little guantanamo by some of the person enters. and april of two thousand and ten we filed a lawsuit against the bureau of prisons the attorney general eric holder. director of the bureau of prisons harley and on and o

held ground in afghanistan and in guantanamo bay between two thousand and two and two thousand and five he says he was tortured and accuses the u.k. of being complicit in that torture only now is the level of the official complicity being revealed i am completely one hundred percent sure but i would not have gone to guantanamo autoblog wrong headed papin could be involvement of british intelligence services i spoke to british intelligence offices quite regularly. but only one kind they were physically present when i was being abused they saw my . lecture. me they saw my according to policy documents seen by the guardian newspaper senior m i five and m i six agents were asked to weigh up the quality of information they might have tain with the level of mistreatment of prisoners would suffer and if it was worth it to go ahead amnesty international says there's a mounting pile of credible evidence on the extent to which britain was involved in torture as yet another document that's been hidden for a very long time that's just been released that shows that there was you know perhaps circums

there is among the leadership of former guantanamo bay detainee, and many have street credit that they didn't have before and they are now rock starrish. there's the american who doesn't resinate in the arab world, but has this draw in the west, and then there's nashir a personal aid to bin laden so he is the line into traditional al-qaeda. this is a leadership that we don't see anywhere else within these al-qaeda franchises in the world. >> host: independent line from tennessee. >> caller: good morning. this is so overblown. as pointed out, and there's a quote from james madison, "a stand in military force with a long executive will not be companions to liberty. the born danger has been always the instruments of tyranny at home. for example, number of american soldiers died in combat last year, 455, minimum number committed suicide, 407 #. listen to this one -- number of american civilians die dying worldwide in terrorist attacks last year, eight. more have died struck by lighting. tobacco kills 550 million people per year around the globe. i wish every time c-span has one of these qu

sure but i would not have gone to guantanamo or to back room. with british intelligence services i spoke to british intelligence officers quite regularly. but. they were physically present when i was being abused they saw. me they saw my according to policy documents seen by the guardian newspaper senior five and m i six agents were asked to weigh up the quality of information they might obtain with the level of mistreatment a prisoner would suffer and if it was worth it to go ahead amnesty international says there's a mounting pile of credible evidence on the extent to which britain was involved in torture binyam mohamed where security service officials were sending question for saving information participating interrogations in situations where they either knew or ought to have known that he was being tortured or otherwise mistreated garcia was youth rendition flights and then you know every week or every month there's a new piece of evidence document that's been hidden for a very long time that's just been released that shows that there was y