Corn, Geoffrey - short clip - Peacetimevs.Wartime

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-	If you want to boil this whole debate down,	0:00
	just think of three methods that the government uses	0:03
	to incapacitate a threat.	0:06
	Deprivation of life,	0:08
	deprivation of liberty and criminal punishment right?	0:09
	Then I contrast for them peacetime versus wartime authority.	0:14
	Peacetime, loss of life as a measure of last resort.	0:19
	Wartime, it's a measure of first resort.	0:23
	Peacetime, it's based on actual threat.	0:26
	Wartime, it's based on presumptive threat.	0:29
	Status. Enemy belligerent.	0:31
	Deprivation of liberty,	0:34
	peacetime the notion of preventive detention	0:36
	is it's been permitted in extremely narrow situations.	0:39
	Mentally ill right,	0:45
	and now we've got the recent cases	0:47
	of recidivous sexual offenders.	0:48
	Wartime it's the norm.	0:50
	Your status means	0:53
	we detain you preventatively not punitively.	0:54
	Peacetime, you wanna criminally punish someone,	0:57
	you have all the process of a normal criminal trial.	0:59
	Wartime, you can use an extraordinary tribunal	1:02
	called a military commission.	1:05
	So put those up on a board and ask yourself	1:06
	why was it so important after 9/11 for congress,	1:09
	for the president,	1:13
	to say this is now a war,	1:14
	an armed conflict.	1:16
	So I've been writing a lot about that.	1:18
	But one of the issues that really interested me	1:20
	is if you can be in an armed conflict	1:22
	with a terrorist group,	1:25
	which I think you can,	1:26
	how do you know the difference between	1:29
	when it's a law enforcement phase versus a conflict phase?	1:31

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Title:

Corn, Geoffrey - short clip - Peacetimevs.Wartime

Date:

May 16, 2012

Interviewer:

Honigsberg, Peter Jan

Interviewee:

Corn, Geoffrey

Role:

Military

Description:

This interview may include descriptions of violence.
Chief of Int’l Law, U.S. Army
Geoffrey Corn, male, age 50, served in the United States military for 22 years, and was an expert witness for the Military Commissions in Guantanamo Bay.
Description was provided by Witness to Guantanamo.

Subject:

United States

Format:

oral histories

Language:

English

Extent:

1:05:22

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Witness to Guantanamo

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Witness to Guantanamo Video Collection, 2009-2017

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