A Guantanamo Update with Latif Nasser and Steve Vladeck
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 23 July 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
It's been a busy couple of weeks at Guantanamo Bay, a place that has not had a busy couple of weeks in a while. There was a transfer, there was a resumption of military commissions, and the chief prosecutor of military commissions resigned abruptly.
To go over these events, Benjamin Wittes sat down with Steve Vladeck, a Lawfare contributing editor and a professor at the University of Texas, and Latif Nasser, a co-host of the show Radiolab from New York Public Radio, where he did an extended series about a Guantanamo Bay detainee, who just happens to be the one who was transferred this week. They talked about who the transferee was and why he was held so long, about the resumption of military commissions and why they are stagnated even when resumed, about the resignation of General Martins, and about the DC Circuit's latest forays into Guantanamo Bay.
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| 0:29.0 | So the low hanging fruit are the 10, you know, who have been cleared and are still there. |
| 0:39.0 | There are another 17 who are in detention, not in the military commissions, |
| 0:44.0 | who have not been cleared by PRBs. |
| 0:47.0 | And, you know, I think those are the most complicated cases for the administration politically. |
| 0:53.0 | That will be the last nut to crack in the universe that is Guantanamo. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm Benjamin Widis and this is the LawFair podcast July 23rd, 2021. |
| 1:05.0 | It's been a busy couple weeks at Guantanamo Bay, |
| 1:09.0 | a place that has not had a busy couple weeks in a while. |
| 1:14.0 | There was a transfer, there was a resumption of military commissions, |
| 1:19.0 | the chief prosecutor of the military commissions resigned abruptly. |
| 1:25.0 | We thought we would get a group together to go over the late events. |
| 1:30.0 | Steve Vladik is a law fair contributing editor and a professor at the University of Texas. |
| 1:37.0 | Lactif Nasser is a co-host of the show radio lab from New York Public Radio |
| 1:44.0 | where he did an extended series about a Guantanamo Bay detainee |
| 1:50.0 | who just happens to be the one who was transferred this week. |
| 1:55.0 | We talked about who the transferee was and why he was held so long. |
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