1/9/26 Andy Worthington on Twenty Four Years of Guantanamo

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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As we hit the twenty-fourth anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo Bay “detention center,” Scott brings Andy Worthington on the show to discuss the history of this illegal prison and the status of the men still being held there. Discussed on the show: The Guantanamo Files by Andy Worthington Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi Don't Forget Us Here by Mansoor Adayfi Outside The Law: Stories from Guantánamo Scott’s interview with Sterling Thomas 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. Audio cleaned up with the Podsworth app: https://podsworth.com Use code HORTON50 for 50% off your first order at Podsworth.com to clean up your voice recordings, sound like a pro, and also support the Scott Horton Show! For more on Scott's work: Check out The Libertarian Institute: https://www.libertarianinstitute.org Check out Scott's other show, Provoked, with Darryl Cooper https://youtube.com/@Provoked_Show Read Scott's books: Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine https://amzn.to/47jMtg7 (The audiobook of Provoked is being published in sections at https://scotthortonshow.com) Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism: https://amzn.to/3tgMCdw Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan https://amzn.to/3HRufs0 Follow Scott on X @scotthortonshow And check out Scott’s full interview archives: https://scotthorton.org/all-interviews This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Roberts and Roberts Brokerage Incorporated https://rrbi.co Moon Does Artisan Coffee https://scotthorton.org/coffee; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom https://www.libertyclassroom.com/dap/a/?a=1616 and Dissident Media https://dissidentmedia.com You can also support Scott’s work by making a one-time or recurring donation at https://scotthorton.org/donate/https://scotthortonshow.com or https://patreon.com/scotthortonshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen of the press have been less than honest, reporting to the American people what's going on in this country?
0:11.0	Because the babies are making this.
0:13.0	We're dealing with Hitler Revisited.
0:15.0	This is the Scott Horton Show, Libertarian Foreign Policy, mostly.
0:21.7	When the president visit, that means that it is not only...
0:24.5	We're going to take out seven countries in five years.
0:27.0	They don't know what the fuck they're doing.
0:29.3	Negotiate now.
0:31.4	End this war.
0:33.5	And now, here's your host, Scott Horton.
0:39.2	All right, you guys, introducing Andy Worthington, just like back in history, but now in video.
0:46.0	Andy, of course, is the great author of the book the Guantanamo Files, and I spent the last
0:52.4	generation raising awareness about the Guantanamo Bay Prison
0:56.4	and trying to get that thing closed and the people released out of there.
0:59.7	His website is Andy Worthington.co.uk.
1:02.9	I haven't said that in a while, but I'm glad that I had a chance to.
1:06.3	And also he's at Andy Worthington.substack.com as well as his new one.
1:11.6	And get this, go, y'all.
1:14.9	24 years of Guantanamo on January 11th this Sunday.
1:21.3	So, boy, is that a long time to be held in prison without trial, it seems like,
1:26.5	especially in sort of kind of the US of A.
1:30.3	Welcome back to the show, Andy. How you doing, man?
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