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.
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With a sigh he sat down at his workstation, and started the application to view the video. )
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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 ( ... )
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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
"The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly." -- Theodore Roosevelt
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