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no bull and the aftermath.

Hello and welcome to the LawFair podcast. I'm Wells Bennett. Last month LawFair attended

the International Military Law and Operations Conference in Bangkok and heard a talk given

by Alan Liota, the Department of Defense's principal director for the Office of detainee

affairs. Liota's remarks touched on the rules governing worldwide attention operations,

an efforts to fill gaps in those rules and the future of US detention policy.

That's a take two things off. One, I extremely happy to be back in Asia for an office for a while and two,

if not all of that, you heard my mother's wife. But like this conference, I spent most of my days

with Wires and the most of my days grappling with the complex and legal issues that come

in my portfolio. I tried dating, presenting on a policy perspective and now I'm going

to purchase my free vacation these days. But I want to say that like many of you, I've

had to spend a lot of time with Wires, you think you're not a Wires, and the one that's

punched you the most is probably that time with Captain Parking. The job I'm going to do today

presented is very pointed and personal, with reflection and connections with TAC. I'm not going

to do that. I think my experience probably will work and I've come on the ball of news, so

a lot of us take that as we have a common understanding about a cat and all the way to be

embarrassed and stories to all of us. The interesting reason I'm here is because of the cat,

and he told me that he really wanted me to come out and drive a presentation on the detention

history, the detention policy, and how we got to where we are at the moment and where we're going

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