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Slen, Peter - Host
YOUR WATCHING BOOK TV ON C-SPAN2. ONE OF THE THINGS WE DO IS VISIT CAMPUSES AROUND THE COUNTRY. IT GIVES US A CHANCE TO TALK WITH PROFESSORS WHO ARE...
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Skerker, Michael B. - Assistant Professor
ETHICIST. TO SEE AT THIS GLASS THAT ALL THE ANSWERS HAVE TO TAKE IN SOME UPPER LEVELS LAS, RELIGIOUS STUDIES AND THAT THE COURSES. >> WOULD YOU SAY...
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Slen, Peter - Host
A PHILOSOPHICAL BOOK OR A HOW TO INTERROGATE BOOK? >> IT IS A WORK OF
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Skerker, Michael B. - Assistant Professor
PHILOSOPHY. THE PRINCIPAL QUESTION IS UNDER WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES CAN A STATE ASK MORE DEMAND TO KNOW THE SECRETS OF ITS CITIZENS. THERE ARE SOME PRACTICAL...
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Slen, Peter - Host
CONVENTION THAT WE ALWAYS TALK ABOUT? >> THE GENEVA CONVENTION
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Skerker, Michael B. - Assistant Professor
TO PROTECT POW'S SIGNED IN 1948. >> AND HOW DID THAT COME
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Slen, Peter - Host
ABOUT? WHAT WILL DOES IT PLAY IN INTERROGATION? >>
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Skerker, Michael B. - Assistant Professor
SURE. THROUGHOUT MUCH OF THE HISTORY OF WARFARE, PRISONERS-OF-WAR WERE TREATED AT THE MERCY OF THEIR CAPTORS, WHICH IS USUALLY BADLY, EITHER SOLD FOR...
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Slen, Peter - Host
INTERROGATION ASPECT? >> WHAT IS SAYS IS
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Skerker, Michael B. - Assistant Professor
DETAINEES CANNOT BE TORTURED MENTALLY OR PHYSICALLY, SUBJECTED TO CRUEL OR UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT. AND SO THAT HAS BEEN CAST DOUBT AS SAYING, YOU CAN'T...
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Slen, Peter - Host
PROFESSOR, WHEN HIS INTERROGATION IMMORAL? >> WELL, I WOULD SAY TO ANY
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Skerker, Michael B. - Assistant Professor
TIME THE PHYSICAL MESSES ARE USED FOR COUPLE OF REASONS. FIRST OF ALL, WHETHER IT'S A LAW ENFORCEMENT AND INTERROGATION OR A MILITARY OR INTELLIGENCE...
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Slen, Peter - Host
ARGUMENT IN YOUR VIEW. >> YES. >> WHAT ABOUT THE
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Slen, Peter - Host
LEGAL ARGUMENT? WHAT IS A LAW FALL? >> EVEN MORE
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Skerker, Michael B. - Assistant Professor
RESTRICTIVE. THE LAW SAYS QUITE CLEARLY WITH ANY KIND A DETAINEE, WHETHER IT IS A DOMESTIC, CRIMINAL SUSPECT OR A POW OR SUSPECTED IRREGULAR COMBATANT...
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Slen, Peter - Host
LOST? DO YOU AGREE WITH THE CURRENT U.S. LAWS ON INTERROGATION? >> YES, BECAUSE THEY
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Skerker, Michael B. - Assistant Professor
ARE RESTRICTIVE IN THIS SENSE THAT I JUST GAVE NO KIND OF COURSE OF TREATMENT IS PERMITTED. DETAINEE'S, WHETHER THEY ARE SUSPECTED, DOMESTIC CRIMINAL...
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Slen, Peter - Host
DOMESTIC. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DOMESTIC U.S. CITIZENS TO MY ENEMY COMBATANTS? WHAT ARE YOUR REGULAR COMBAT IS? >>
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Skerker, Michael B. - Assistant Professor
SURE. OKAY. A REGULAR COMBATANT IS A PERSON THAT IS PART OF AN ORGANIZED GROUP, POLITICAL ENDS THAT IS EITHER NOT PART OF A CONVENTIONAL, UNIT, PROBABLY...
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Slen, Peter - Host
CITIZENS, THOUGH, ARE THE PROTECTIONS DIFFERENT? ARE THE STRONGER? >> I WOULD
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Skerker, Michael B. - Assistant Professor
ARGUE THAT IN TERMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF PEOPLE HAVE THIS SAME SET OF HUMAN RIGHTS, WHICH INCLUDE RIGHT AGAINST ARBITRARY DETENTION, ARBITRARY ACCUSATION,...
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Slen, Peter - Host
PROFESSOR, WATER BOARDING BECAME A BIG ISSUE A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO AND THE WORSE. IS WATER BOARDING IMMORAL? >> I BELIEVE IT
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Skerker, Michael B. - Assistant Professor
IS. IT IS A COURSE OF TECHNIQUE THAT , IT'S THE TYPE OF VIOLENCE THAT IS BEING USED AGAINST SOMEONE WHO'S NOT BEEN VIOLENT. FURTHER, THE ASSUMPTION...
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Slen, Peter - Host
OF THE FREQUENT QUESTIONS YOU GET FROM THE CADETS HERE AT THE NAVAL ACADEMY AND INTERROGATIONS? >> THEY TEND TO BE
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Skerker, Michael B. - Assistant Professor
PRACTICALLY MINDED FOLKS AND OFTEN WANT TO KNOW WHAT ACTUALLY WORKS AND ACTUALLY DOES NOT WORK. I THINK MANY OF THEM TO NOT -- LET ME PUT IT THIS WAY....
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Slen, Peter - Host
ONE OF THE EXAMPLES THAT WE OFTEN HEAR ABOUT IS, SOMEBODY HAS A NUCLEAR BOMB. THEY WILL KILL X NUMBER OF PEOPLE UNLESS WE FIGURE OUT WHERE THAT BONN...
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Skerker, Michael B. - Assistant Professor
VIEW? >> RIGHT. THE FAMOUS TICKING BOMB EXPERIMENT. I AGREE WITH A PHILOSOPHER NAMED DAVID LUBIN WHO CALL THAT AN INTELLECTUAL FRAUD, THAT EXPERIMENT....
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Slen, Peter - Host
YOU HAVE, ACADEMIC FREEDOM. THE U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY? HE TAUGHT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. DO YOU HAVE THE SAME FREEDOMS REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE...
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Skerker, Michael B. - Assistant Professor
ACADEMIC FREEDOM. THAT SAID, I DO WORK FOR THE GOVERNMENT, SO I DON'T WANT TO EMBARRASS BY EMPLOYERS AND MAKE THEM UNCOMFORTABLE. SO SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES...
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Skerker, Michael B. - Assistant Professor
I FIND IT FASCINATING. IN READING LAW REVIEW JOURNALS ABOUT THE RIGHT, COMPELLED, WAS STRUCK BY WAS THAT MOST LEGAL SCHOLARS CAN AGREE ON WHY THIS ...
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Slen, Peter - Host
DO YOU THINK SHOULD BE ALLOWED IN INTERROGATION? >> THERE ARE
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Skerker, Michael B. - Assistant Professor
A COUPLE OF ISSUES WITH INTIMIDATION. FIRST, IF YOU INTIMIDATE SOMEBODY INTO TALKING THERE IS NO TELLING WHETHER THAT'S TRUE NOT. AS TO GIVE WAY TO GET...
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Skerker, Michael B. - Assistant Professor
THING. THAT YOU ARE POTENTIALLY TERRORIZING, THREATENING, AN INNOCENT PERSON. SO THAT'S A BAD THING. AND THREATS REDUCE THE RELIABILITY. >> WELL, MICHAEL...
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Slen, Peter - Host
WE TALKED ABOUT PHILOSOPHICALLY INTERROGATION, BUT IF YOU ARE IN AFGHANISTAN, IN A SMALL VILLAGE, ISOLATED, THE RULES DIFFER? >> NO, AND THAT IS WHY...
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Skerker, Michael B. - Assistant Professor
HAVE RULES. THAT'S WHY WE TEACH RULES LIKE THIS IN PLACES LIKE THE ACADEMY, PLACES LIKE THE MILITARY INTELLIGENCE SCHOOL SO THAT WHEN YOU'RE IN THE...
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Slen, Peter - Host
LOOKING BACK AT HOW WE PROSECUTED THE WARS WHEN IT COMES TO INTERROGATION, ISSUES, HOW WOULD YOU JUDGE OUR BEHAVIOR? >> FOR THE MOST PART IT'S
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Skerker, Michael B. - Assistant Professor
BEEN POOR. WE WERE ILL-PREPARED FOR THE INTERROGATION STANDPOINT. THE CIA HAD NO TREND INTERROGATORS. THE MILITARY HAD LARGELY -- THE MILITARY DID...
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Slen, Peter - Host
MICHAEL SKERKER IS A PROFESSOR AT THE U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY, AND HE IS THE AUTHOR OF THIS BOOK, "AN ETHICS OF INTERROGATION." HERE IT IS. THIS IS BOOK TV...
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