1/13/22 Andy Worthington on the Twenty Years of Abuse at Guantanamo Bay

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🗓️ 16 January 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Scott is joined by Andy Worthington, author of Guantanamo Files to discuss the status of the prison two decades after it opened. Worthington explains who remains detained at the prison, where detainees stand regarding trials and the developments that have happened under Biden so far. Scott and Worthington also discuss the shameful history of the illegal prison. Discussed on the show: Art from Guantanamo Bay Unmasking Jihadi John: Anatomy of a Terrorist (IMDb) Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo by Mansoor Adayfi “The Guantánamo “Suicides”” (Harpers) Andy Worthington is the author of Guantanamo Files and the director of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo.” Read his work at the Future of Freedom Foundation and AndyWorthington.co.uk and follow him on Twitter @GuantanamoAndy. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; EasyShip; Free Range Feeder; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt and Listen and Think Audio. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjYu5tZiG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton Show.
0:12.6	I'm the Director of the Libertarian Institute,
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0:46.2	All right, you guys, on the line,
0:47.6	I've got the great Andy Worthington.
0:49.9	Andy Worthington.
0:50.8	CO. UK is his great website. Of course he wrote the book,
0:54.8	the Guantanamo files, and he produced the documentary outside the law. And he has been
1:01.1	at least among the, if not the very greatest chroniclers of
1:06.3	chronicler of American policy
1:09.0	at Guantanamo Bay for the last 20 years now the official anniversary. 20 years we had just the other day
1:16.2	on I guess it was the 11th. Welcome back to the show Andy how are you?
1:20.0	Yeah I'm great Scott. Thanks it's always a pleasure to talk to you. I see you've been very busy as well.
1:26.0	Yeah, man, I can't keep up. You should see Mount Laundry in the other room. It's just out of control. Spread way too thin.
1:36.4	Listen, so 20 years ago, I'll do it like this man. I was interviewed the other day and they ask me hey what's
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