Inside Gitmo With Hollie McKay
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Jenna Lee
4.9 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
A once “high-valued” detainee was released from Gitmo this week.
Others will reportedly follow.
Will Gitmo finally close? Is it an example of the American justice system “working” or its ineffectiveness?
Writer & war correspondent Hollie McKay joins us to talk about her recent trip to the home of infamous prison… and shares a unique interaction with one of Gitmo’s most famous former prisoners.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody. Hello from snowy freezing Texas and it is Thursday February 2nd Groundhogs |
| 0:11.2 | Day. The groundhog saw his shadow so we're in for another couple weeks of winter if you believe |
| 0:16.3 | that. We're having a little bit of trouble here in Texas with some freezing ice that's caused a big issue |
| 0:22.9 | all around the state, but specifically where I am. |
| 0:26.0 | So we're experiencing some power outages, some Wi-Fi outages. |
| 0:28.8 | So fingers crossed, we're able to do this interview because one of the things that we learned |
| 0:32.1 | today had nothing to do with the weather. |
| 0:33.5 | We would expect some weather-related news in February. |
| 0:36.7 | But the news that we received from the Defense Department today |
| 0:39.3 | wasn't something that we expected, and it is history-making in a few different ways. |
| 0:44.3 | So earlier today, we get this press release from the Defense Department |
| 0:47.3 | about the first detainee held at Watanamo Bay who's being resettled, |
| 0:51.3 | meaning they're being removed from the prison there and resettled |
| 0:55.5 | in another country. And interestingly enough, this is actually taking place in the Western |
| 1:00.8 | hemisphere, which we often don't see, in the country of Belize, which is also something that we |
| 1:05.1 | often don't see. So I just want to give you a little background on this, and then I'm going |
| 1:08.3 | to bring in our guests, because we have someone with such a unique perspective, someone who's actually spent time at Watanamo Bay. You know her, |
| 1:15.7 | writer, war correspondent, Holly McKay, and she was just there at Watanamo Bay for eight days. There's a lot |
| 1:22.8 | of people that can talk about Watanamo Bay. There are very few who have spent time like that there. So Holly's going to |
| 1:28.5 | give us some perspective about what what is it actually like. But first, let me just tell you about |
| 1:32.5 | this detainee. So overall, just big picture. At one point, we had hundreds and hundreds of detainees |
| 1:37.8 | at Watanamo Bay at the prison there. That opened in 2002. We've had the base inantanamo Bay, Cuba for more than 100 years. |
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