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Tucker Carlson: “The plan was to detain hundreds of people, including US…”

Featuring: Tucker Carlson, Conservative, Right-wing | Political Commentator, Former Fox News Host | National

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The 9/11 Files: From Tragedy to Tyranny | Ep 5

Published | Video Starts at 05:59

I said, guantanamo, Cuba? Why would we send them to Cuba? And my colleague in Washington said, well, we've come up with a plan. The plan was to detain hundreds of people, including US Citizens, without formal charges or any trial. This was a multi pronged plan to detain prisoners indefinitely, to carry out torture on some of them, which at the time were called enhanced interrogation techniques, and to either render or extraordinarily render others. (05:59–06:06)

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Asserts that there was a plan to detain people, including US citizens, without charges or trial.

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