bagram is the only prison technical run by the u.s. military designed to imprison people for the long term. u.s. was prison saturday. that was in the works for a year. journalists gathered for the ceremony, everyone was there. then suddenly it was cancelled. the military isn t saying why exactly it cancelled the handover of the prison. this week, karzai said he wanted to release a lot of those prisoners. the u.s. military says they have things to work out with the afghan government. then after that, they work that stuff out, they will hand over the prison at some point eventually. then on the same day while chuck hagel was in his first high level meeting, there were two suicide bombings, one south of the capital, one in the capital, close to that meeting. that bomber was on a bicycle, detonated his device in a crowd of civilians waiting at a security check point.
it s the only prison still run by the yiet military. it s designed to imprison people long term. the u.s. was supposed to hand over control of that prison on saturday. that was in the works for a year. everyone is there and then suddenly it was cancelled. the military isn t saying why exactly it cancelled the hand over. this week president karzai said he wanted to release a lot of those prisoners. they probably had a lot to do with it. the u.s. said they had a lot to work out with the government. on the very same day while chuck hagel is in his first high level meeting there were two suicide bombings. one close to the capital and with unin the capital. that bomber was on a bicycle. secretary hagel was not in the
opposed to civilian courts, the administration says it s case by case but prefers the courts. there s a previous strong track record in handling these kinds of trials. critics question whether reading a terror suspect his rights gets in the way of interrogating him. we certainly don t want him to come to america before he has been fully interrogated to make sure that we know everything that he knows about al qaeda and let him hear the words, you have the right to remain silent. recent cases suggest there s a way to do it even if the military isn t involved. just because you re in an american courtroom doesn t mean that interrogation is off limits. you just have to follow certain rules and prosecutors and agents know how to do this. this debate hit its peak when the administration announced and later abandoned plans to bring khalid sheikh mohammed to new york for a trial. civilian court since 9/11, guilty pleas and verdicts have
how difficult it is to sustain a family and relationships. i don t know why we think it s easier for top commanders than your average infantry man trying to hold his family together. is this potentially we tend to defer to the military s own judgment on these things. we ask the commanders on the ground for their own opinion, but is this not another occasion for civilians to say, this is done in our name. the military isn t fighting this war because it wants to, because they want us to be fighting this. could this be an occasion for us to say we re asking the military to do too much for too long now. this is not personally sustainable? i d like to believe it s the case. we went through the stop leave and multiple tours of duty during iraq, which was so many strains, mental, physical, marital on the people fighting and their families. now this is at a high level, possibly a dramatization of the strains even in the privileged part of the military complex. i just the public is not en
of divorce among veterans. how difficult it is to sustain a family and relationships. i don t know why we think it s easier for top commanders than your average infantry man trying to hold his family together. is this potentially we tend to defer to the military s own judgment on these things. we ask the commanders on the ground for their own opinion, but is this not another occasion for civilians to say, this is done in our name. the military isn t fighting this war because it wants to, because they want us to be fighting this. could this be an occasion for us to say we re asking the military to do too much for too long now. this is not personally sustainable? i d like to believe it s the case. we went through the stop leave and multiple tours of duty during iraq, which was so many strains, mental, physical, marital on the people fighting and their families. now this is at a high level, possibly a dramatization of the strains even in the privileged part of the military complex. i