Does Guantanamo Bay Have a Future?
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2014
⏱️ 52 minutes
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A monthly reality-check on the issues Americans care about most. Host Warren Olney draws on his decades of experience to explore the people and issues shaping – and disrupting - our world. How did everything change so fast? Where are we headed? The conversations are informal, edgy and always informative. If Warren's asking, you want to know the answer.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:08.0 | Does Guantanamo Bay have a future? |
| 0:13.6 | Hello again, I'm Armin Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International. |
| 0:17.8 | A daily look at the issues Americans care about most. It's been five years since |
| 0:21.6 | President Obama ordered the closure of Guantanamo Bay. He's repeating his threat to veto any |
| 0:26.7 | defense bill that requires keeping it open. The population of almost 800 prisoners is down to 154, |
| 0:33.5 | kept in place by a lack of alternatives and congressional restrictions. |
| 0:38.1 | Last week, rather than allow a hunger-striking inmate to die, |
| 0:41.3 | a judge-approved force-feeding raising familiar questions about the abuse of prisoners. |
| 0:46.4 | Even former supporters call the prison a recruiting poster for terrorists. |
| 0:50.4 | Can the president muster the support he needs to shut Guantanamo Bay? |
| 0:54.8 | Today's talking point, fortune, truth, and faith in China on To the Point. |
| 1:00.7 | Listen to KCRW's 24-hour all-news channel, stream BBC World Service, NPR and KCRW programs, |
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| 1:15.9 | Support for To The Point comes from the members of KCRW and from the Public Radio International Program Fund. |
| 1:22.7 | Hello again, Warren Alney, back with To the Point. Five years after President Obama ordered the closing of Guantanamo Bay, |
| 1:28.3 | even former supporters call it a recruiting poster for terrorists. We'll hear about prisoners held for 12 years without trial, |
| 1:34.9 | videotapes of forced feedings, and the president's latest promise to veto any defense bill that doesn't allow Guantanamo to be closed. |
| 1:42.0 | Today's talking point, in 25 years, China has transformed 10 |
| 1:46.1 | times faster than Britain's Industrial Revolution at 100 times the scale. We'll hear what that's |
| 1:51.4 | meant for billionaires and bloggers and entrepreneurs. First, this news update, even before |
| 1:56.9 | taking office, Ukraine's newly elected president, Petro Poroshenko, has vowed to drive |
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