Lewis, Paul - short clip - TransferNotRelease
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- | There are some countries who really wanted | 0:02 |
to help us but didn't want it to be known. | 0:05 | |
So they didn't want, even the fact that we were | 0:09 | |
visiting with them, but let's say hypothetically, | 0:12 | |
the working premise was you wanted to have, | 0:18 | |
we wanted to have an agreement at least for a couple years, | 0:22 | |
and which the country would say | 0:24 | |
we're going to do everything under our domestic law to | 0:28 | |
make sure this detainee can't travel. | 0:30 | |
Not a guarantee, you know, they have court systems and | 0:33 | |
but I wanted to know what that process was and yeah, | 0:36 | |
track record if they'd had previous detainees. | 0:41 | |
So, great Britain, we looked at the process | 0:44 | |
in the United Kingdom. | 0:46 | |
Again, there's no guarantees in a democracy | 0:48 | |
but the detainees were told what, you know, | 0:50 | |
what the security assurances were and | 0:53 | |
yeah, the understanding was a detainee was not going to be | 0:59 | |
forced to go to a country they did not want to go to | 1:03 | |
and if they didn't understand the circumstances, so yeah. | 1:06 | |
Do I want to get out of Gitmo, yeah. | 1:10 | |
So, maybe I'll take a deal, but on the other hand, | 1:12 | |
the understanding was that they knew | 1:16 | |
what they were getting into. | 1:19 | |
This was not release, it was transfer | 1:20 | |
subject to restrictions. | 1:23 |
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