Don't accept the post or stay unless you have an understanding with the President that you're free to tell him what you think with the bark off and you have the courage to do it.
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We now have people from ... two or three handfuls of countries ... and my first choice would be for many of those to end up back in their countries to be processed through their systems, ... We undoubtedly will end up processing them through the criminal justice system ... I suspect there will be some military commissions.
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there are certain things taking place from the air and things from time to time being coordinated with the ground.
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normally ministers of defense visit countries where there's that type of activity.
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