24: Live Another Day (TV Mini Series)

Day 9: 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. (2014)

Colin Salmon: General Coburn

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• General Coburn : We believe that this is Margot Al-Harazi crawling away from the wreckage. God knows how she survived.

  President James Heller : There were children there. So she was telling the truth.

  Mark Boudreau : Despite her claims, the majority of the people killed were members of a radical sect led by her husband.

  President James Heller : Well, why wasn't I told that there were civilian casualties?

  Mark Boudreau : We were in the middle of a fight to secure funding for the drone program. We needed to focus on the achieved objective, which was killing her husband.

  President James Heller : So you covered it up? Even from me?

  Mark Boudreau : I thought that the burden of specifics would distract you from the goal at hand.

  President James Heller : So you didn't think that you could trust me with the truth, that if I knew that we had killed civilians somehow I wouldn't lobby as hard as you thought.

  Mark Boudreau : I was protecting you. That's why you hired me. "No military action is purely surgical. And when the fight begins, collateral damage is always a factor, but our U.S. drone program lets us hit our enemies with the fewest civilian casualties." Those are your words, Mr. President. That's what you believe. And until I hear otherwise, I'm going to do everything I can to further that policy.