Comments | atlantis_tng: Day 52, Email to re: security video, attn. Weir, Sheppard, Heightmeyer, Beckett [F]

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Day 52, Email to re: security video, attn. Weir, Sheppard, Heightmeyer, Beckett [F]

Apr 08, 2009 14:45

Not in a particularly good mood after his little chat with Elizabeth in the mess hall, Rodney returned to the science lab. He still had to review the security footage, and procrastinating wasn't a possibility anymore. He'd avoided that certain task all morning, but the sooner he dug up the video, the sooner he was done with it.

( With a sigh he sat down at his workstation, and started the application to view the video. )

time: afternoon, character: elizabeth weir, location: science lab, character: rodney mckay, character: john sheppard, character: carson beckett, day 52, location: email, character: kate heightmeyer

Comments 26

doc_beckett April 19 2009, 02:02:02 UTC

Carson finally had a moment to himself. He'd finished talking to Elizabeth, and completed both reports. He still needed to check in on Radek, Jack, and the reverend, who really didn't get a lot of his attention so far. Thank goodness, his remaining staff was on the ball and took care of things ( ... )

dr_liz_weir April 19 2009, 17:30:38 UTC

Subject: Re: Security footage
From: Weir, Elizabeth
To: Sheppard, John

John,

Limited access or not, it seems more than likely that there will be talk about your actions with the dying wraith worshiper. Due to the very troubling nature of the events which I'm sure you've reviewed by now, I am not going to issue any sort of official memo, but I want you to know where I stand on it, and what I will be saying should anyone ask me to comment on it.

First, the entire affair arguably falls altogether under military purview. The prisoners are military prisoners and not civilian ones, and whatever determinations we make in the future regarding the moral quagmire we find ourselves in when fighting a war with aliens who essentially eat humans, it would be beyond foolish to insist on holding to any conventional standards regarding human prisoners of war. The Wraith are not humans, and they cannot be expected to hold to any such standards themselves ( ... )

j_sheppard April 19 2009, 22:07:56 UTC

From: Maj. John T. Sheppard ( ... )

dr_liz_weir April 20 2009, 08:37:34 UTC

From: Dr. Elizabeth Weir ( ... )

j_sheppard April 20 2009, 14:46:11 UTC

From: Maj. John T. Sheppard
To: Dr. Elizabeth Weir
Subject: Re: Security footage

While the military may accept that the treatment of prisoners is a military matter, I seriously doubt non-military, especially non-US military personnel are going to agree with you on that, which is why I suggest you emphasize "prisoner's last wishes" rather than "military matter" which is only going to drive a wedge between the military and the people they're trying to protect. When someone like Carson Beckett basically calls me a killer (a more exact quote would be something like "I disagree with your kill-before-anything-else mantra"), painting this incident as a military matter isn't going to fly.

-- JTS

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