Will the US Get Back into the Detainee Business?
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2016
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
US Special Forces are now on the ground in Iraq, and ISIS fighters are being captured as well as killed. One is reportedly an American citizen. What are the rules for interrogation? Should detainees be held at Guantánamo Bay?
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| 0:00.0 | Join left-right and center host Bob Shear for his new podcast, Shear Intelligence. The twice-monthly |
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| 0:32.8 | this is To the Point. It's detention and interrogation all over again. Hello again. I'm Armin Alney, and this is |
| 0:44.1 | to the point from Public Radio International. The daily look at the issues Americans care about most. |
| 0:48.7 | U.S. special forces are conducting targeted raids in Iraq now, and fighters for the Islamic |
| 0:53.4 | state are being captured |
| 0:55.0 | as well as killed by airstrikes and drones. A chemical weapons expert who once worked for Saddam Hussein |
| 1:00.0 | was interrogated and then turned over to the Iraqis. Today, Kurdish Peshmerger reportedly |
| 1:05.0 | captured a U.S. citizen, complicating the issue of what to do with ISIS detainees. |
| 1:17.1 | Questions about enhanced interrogation and Guantanamo Bay are already being raised in the presidential campaign. |
| 1:22.7 | Today's talking point, the right to protest, political violence, and Donald Trump. |
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| 2:00.3 | Hello again. We're in Al-Nalny back with To the Point. U.S. Special Forces are now on the ground Radio International Program Fund. Hello again, Warren Alney, back with |
| 2:01.5 | To the Point. U.S. Special Forces are now in the ground in Iraq and ISIS fighters are being |
| 2:05.6 | captured as well as killed. One is reportedly an American citizen. What are the rules for |
| 2:10.7 | interrogation? Should detainees be held at Guantanamo Bay? Today's talking point, Republicans |
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