1/13/23 Andy Worthington: The US is Still Running an Illegal Prison at Guantanamo Bay

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Andy Worthington returns to talk about the 35 men who remain imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay as we pass the 21st anniversary of the prison. Of those 35 men, 20 have already been cleared for release, yet they remain in custody with no release date. Scott and Worthington talk about the shameful history of the prison, consider all the reasons it’s stayed open so long and discuss what must happen for this disgraceful chapter of America’s history to finally be brought to an end. Discussed on the show: “You Have No Rights” (The Intercept) “Convicted Guantánamo Prisoner Ali Hamza Al-Bahlul Seeks An End to His 14 Years of Solitary Confinement” (AndyWorthington.co.uk) 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: Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY 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's show.
0:02.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute.
0:09.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute,
0:14.8	editorial director of anti-war.com.
0:17.6	Author of the book, Pools Arren,
0:19.6	time to end the war in Afghanistan,
0:21.6	and the brand new enough already. Time to end the war in Afghanistan and the brand new enough already time to end the war on
0:24.8	terrorism and I've recorded more than 5,500 interviews since 2003 almost all on
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0:39.1	archive is also available at YouTube. YouTube. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . good old friends, some of you long time listeners probably miss this guy. He's the best that we've ever had on
0:56.2	Guantanamo Bay. He wrote the book, The Guantanamo Files, which is, well you edited it, really.
1:02.0	It's all about every single one everything he could find
1:07.0	on all 700 and something guys that W Bush had locked up in there and of course he did
1:11.9	the documentary called
1:12.8	Outside the Law which is absolutely excellent and he's written a million
1:17.5	articles on all of this stuff for the Future Freedom Foundation for one thing but also
1:22.0	at his own website
1:23.4	Andy Worthington. CO. UK.
1:27.5	Welcome back to the show, my friend.
1:28.8	How are you?
1:29.8	I'm good.
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