increases in civilians being targeted from all sides this is something that s very important that we have to keep in mind the united nations has documented this in other organizations i ve documented it where basically u.s. forces and afghan government allied forces are being considered responsible for things like disappearances for. abuses basically like you know shooting people on the spot taking them prisoner interrogation violent interrogation tactics scaring people through the use of night raids which have been controversial throughout the entire 18 years of the u.s. war in afghanistan and so basically what we re seeing is that these questions of how civilians are being treated are now being documented on all sides and the situation seems to be getting much worse and not better for civilians you know dealing with both of our national security forces as well as their u.s.
increases in civilians being targeted from all sides this is something that s very important that we have to keep in mind the united nations has documented this in other organizations that are documented where basically u.s. forces and afghan government allied forces are being considered responsible for things like disappearances for. abuses basically like you know shooting people on the spot taking them prisoner interrogation violent interrogation tactics scaring people through the use of night raids which have been controversial throughout the entire 18 years of the u.s. war in afghanistan and so basically what we re seeing is that these questions of how civilians are being treated are now being documented on all sides and the situation seems to be getting much worse and not better for civilians you know dealing with both of our national security forces as well as their u.s.
as head of the fbi. and they won president trump not to keep them on the job in early january of 2017. they wrote, mr. comey is nothing if not political, especially when it comes to opportunities to burnish his personal reputation going after the objects of his liberal wrath. he went after frank quattrone, scooter libby indirectly, and he botched the hillary clinton email investigation for the left in the right. for the liberals and the conservatives. to your point. brian: guess what gets launched after the schematic robert mueller , his good buddy, when he stood up with john ashcroft, hid behind a curtain in order to renew extreme interrogation tactics. he put himself there. him and robert mueller, they threaten to resign in front of george bush, and it just mysteriously it s very conspicuous that in james comey s book he talks about kind of an indifferent
you have to have the second half of the conversation with the american people about what risk comes after it. i want to talk about something elizabeth warren said. she committed to a no first use policy on nuclear weapons. what do you think? i buy that. you step back and say try to come up with a scenario where we say there s an adversary that poses a conventional threat or maybe we re in a conventional war and we say we re going to use a nuclear weapon first. it s hard for me to come up with a scenario. of course, somebody is going to say world war ii, a scenario where we come back and say it s a good idea to depend on nuclear weapons. hard for me to see that. black site: the cia in the post 9/11 world. tell us about it. the proposition was simple. i was running one day. i m a runner in the morning. i was thinking there s a perspective from the people i worked with on 9/11 who developed the black sites and the detention facilities and interrogation tactics. they haven t spoken
the way we were trained. most of the interrogation schools out there teach the same approach, which is some form of the reed technique, what the reed technique does is it takes psychological manipulation and persuasion to convince the suspect that there s no doubt as to their guilt, that they re done, and the only way that they can receive any sort of help is by confessing. in looking at walter s case, it was like an oh, my god. i just threw my hands up. there was a lot of evidence of problematic interrogation tactics. like i testified, devlin was the one who was doing a lot of writing, a lot of questioning to ask me what have i heard about what happened. once i got up to go out the door, they shut the door on me, and devlin told me, you re not going anywheres because we believe you killed the girl, and you re blocking the memory and we re going to help you remember it. devlin kept on telling me that i