disconnect between some of our critics on the far left and on the far ride. the truth of the matter is we are making significant reforms to the detention system and we re just exercising common sense. we have about 30,000 detention beds on any given day that are available to detain people for removal purposes and it doesn t make sense to put a pregnant mother in that detention bed when she will be up for her hearings without being detained or put somebody who has terminal cancer in that detention bed. we need to put a criminal in that bed, we need to put somebody who is a risk of flight or danger to the community. how is it that some of these families are getting broken up when some of these people might be guilty of a minor violation as opposed to a serious criminal violation? well, remember, it s against the law to be in the country unlawfully to start with. and if you re committing crimes you re not only here unlawfully, you re also committing crimes. both of which are a grounds
well, saying a lot of this documentation doesn t have any huge new revelations in it. but what are the concerns, the compromising of our national security with these documents being out there? well, there s no doubt this is a massive compromising of american intelligence. in fact, it should be i m sure it is an embarrassment to the pentagon. you cannot release this volume of field reports. these are essentially field reports by mid toll higdle to high-ranking american officers about intelligence they re gathering, even on al qaeda who is our obvious foe there. the releasing of this evidence not only plays into the hands of the enemy, but it also can bear upon the american public s support for the war. right, which as we know has continued to drop as the conflict has gone on over these years. philip smucker, independent journalist, filmmaker, author of my brother, my enemy, thanks