March 13 2006. Secretary of State Rice's Legal Advisor, John B. Bellinger III, took part in a digital video conference with German journalists in Berlin, Cologne and Hamburg to address misperceptions regarding the U.S. policy and treatment of detainees in the war on terror. In the discussion, Bellinger underlined that the U.S. is constantly working to improve detainee policies and procedures and that the U.S. has no interest in detaining enemy combatants longer than absolutely necessary.