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Years i was present with many conversations involving the president where techniques were discussed. so i just assumed that someone, someone had given him a briefing about what was actually going on because he certainly seemed to be aware of it. if you read his book, decision points, beginning 2002 he talks about conversations he had with tenet about interrogation techniques, i dont know how much detail the conversations went into but clearly the president was aware, had a general knowledge abou...

Done to justify this. >> so i want to come back to that day today and the limited experience. on one piece here. f the example here for me is president george w. bush in decision points saying the worst moment of his presidency was being called racist by kanye west. and theres a part of me that thinks, great, i am happy my president does not want to be thought of that way. theres value in my president not wanting to be thought of as racist. but the idea being called racist was equivalent to the ...

Calculations of the aircrafts likely flight path is fed into the search strategies and the tasking of search aircraft and ships. senior officials of malaysia and australia are currently drawing up a comprehensive agreement regarding australias role in the search and the broader investigation. this agreement will set out such matters as the critical decision points in the search, the handling of accident victims, the custody and analysis of the aircraft wreckage, and the down loading of informati...

Reality of reduced resources and a challenging and changing strategic environment requires us to prioritize and make difficult choices. some of those choices we must make now. for other choices, particularly those involving the size of our armed forces, we have built decision points into our budget plan. >> well, long detailed news conference tonight, defense secretary chuck hagel laying out a plan to draw down nearly all of its combat forces from afghanistan this year, and also cut the active d...

Have to take into account. walking into the oval office, i would have advised president obama that a lacky is an enemy combatant. i would also caution, given supreme court decisions, im not sure the court would agree with that assessment. >> the first obvious question, does it matter if its a drone or if its a weapon in the hand of a u.s. troop member? does it matter in the analysis? probably not, right? >> again, there are two decision points. are you an enemy combatant, and second, are we goin...

Not the president of the united states on his own authority can designate an american citizen sin overseas as an enemy combatant. the two decision points are whether to put him on the kill list and the second whether or not to execute on the kill order. i think the president has the authority as commander and chief once you identify where a combatant is, to take action, to take him out like you would any other enemy. the reports are the obama administration takes months to find out if he is an e...

Weapons force more broadly, and i feel like, and i might be making it up, but i feel like were getting to the tipping point where the concern and the attention to these issues is going to stop pretending like its a personnel problem and people are going to start talking about the mission. it feels like it. >> particularly as we approach these decision points as you mentioned in congress. were going to spend $1 trillion on nuclear weapons over the next 30 years. $1 trillion. is that where you wan...

Over years and years. there are rules to war. >> does that include international law about when it is okay for the u.s. to strike in any fashion? does it need to go through the u.n.? is it not in the view of human rights watch a legitimate exercise of force if it doesnt go through that process? >> the u.n. security council should allow -- is the party that allows or not an intervention. now, we know from experience and history there have been attacks that were not -- >> kosovo. >> exactly. >> as...

Hans blix said president obama some time ago talked about international legality. i was heartened by that. i feel the politics of the moment are pushing him in a direction weve seen before in the united states." "if the aim is to stop the breach of international law and to keep the lid on others with chemical weapons, military action without first waiting for the u.n. inspector report is not the way to go about it." if you have ever wondered why it is that presidents age so fast while they are i...

Iraq war. hans blix said president obama some time ago talked about international legality. i was heartened by that. i feel the politics of the moment are pushing him in a direction weve seen before in the united states." "if the aim is to stop the breach of international law and to keep the lid on others with chemical weapons, military action without first waiting for the u.n. inspector report is not the way to go about it." if you have ever wondered why it is that presidents age so fast while ...