the other important banking sanctions, but if you re unfreezing up to $7 billion in a combination of things, their assets, they still have the oil in the ground. they eventually will be able to produce it when sanctions at some point are lifted, presumably if this goes well, and you re giving them access to money. you re propping up their economy at a time when they were basically, you know, down on the mat. well, the relief package includes about $4 billion in allowing the iranians access to their own money. about $4 billion. then some other commercial trade that is worth about $2 billion. that is economically insignificant to iran. if you look at what they have been deprived of in terms of their oil revenue over the last two years, it s more than $100 billion. if you look at their foreign reserves that they don t have access to, it s about $100 billion. if you look at their budget deficit, it s north of $35 billion. so this very modest sanctions
to insure the safety. guantanamo was created and additions were made for this kind of purpose to detain high value detainees and the united states invested a large amount of money to bring someone to justice. part of the concern that may be driving this decision is medical facilities are not adequate to deal with the severe illness that a l- liby has. that may be part of the decision. one question. do you know the chief war crimes prosecutor martin are you familiar with him? i don t personally. he thinksine though he is doing it in gitmo. he is be in are new york. again, he had access to information that i don t have access to.
we will have plird to a large degree in a better sense, because you can t deliver chemicals weapons that you don t have access to. exactly. now you can continue to go ahead against assad in war crimes, which i certainly this i that we should through the united nations, pursue assad in terms of a war crimes criminal, which i believe he is for what he s done to the u.s. citizens. i don t think anybody do you see that he s probably a war criminal, but on the other side we ve sees priests beheaded by rebels, we ve seen a rebel eating the heart of a soldier. it s not like there s no atrocity on the other side, and al qaeda is on the other side. i can t conceive how we could be allies with al qaeda. i don t suggest we would be allies with al qaeda. there are vetted elements of the syrian opposition that we believe that are largely. no, they re not allies.
from i don t know, 17 years experience in the justice department is, this area is dealt with in a much more careful, much more judicious way than just about any other area of the justice department. and this is drew of the obama administration this has been true of the bush administration, the reagan administration that i was in when it was in its infant stage. you don t want to throw out the baby with the bath water here. the people that execute that 100% warrant that s issued, include people like this guy snowden who s a contractor only on the job three months. i don t get that greta, i don t get that at all. you want to get on something of an outrage, i don t understand how a guy who s been there for three months, who never graduated from high school, who looks like a pretty mixed up, confused guy to me, i don t understand how this guy gets access to classified information that members of congress don t
from i don t know, 17 years experience in the justice department is, this area is dealt with in a much more careful, much more judicious way than just about any other area of the justice department. and this is drew of the obama administration this has been true of the bush administration, the reagan administration that i was in when it was in its infant stage. you don t want to throw out the baby with the bath water here. the people that execute that 100% warrant that s issued, include people like this guy snowden who s a contractor only on the job three months. i don t get that greta, i don t get that at all. you want to get on something of an outrage, i don t understand how a guy who s been there for three months, who never graduated from high school, who looks like a pretty mixed up, confused guy to me, i don t understand how this guy gets access to classified information that members of congress don t