Japanese Captives, the diary of a Guantanamo Bay inmate, and more

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🗓️ 23 January 2015

⏱️ 52 minutes

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A video threat from ISIS to Japan, debunking conventional wisdom in Congress, and a newly published memoir from a Guantanamo Bay inmate.

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0:00.0	When you open this book, you stop dead in your tracks because you realize that you're hearing a voice that's come out of what has been an incredible void.
0:11.4	After six years of legal wrangling, the diary of a Guantanamo inmate is finally published.
0:17.6	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Ladstone. And I'm Bob Garfield.
0:23.2	New Jersey Governor and likely presidential hopeful Chris Christie has been dubbed the YouTube
0:28.9	governor. But it's not a bedside manner. You think you get behind this microphone having me
0:35.0	talk about Schwinkies? This is a setup, man. I know it. You people are the
0:39.6	worst. Also, when telemarketers
0:41.8	sound like robots,
0:43.6	maybe they really are.
0:46.4	I am a real
0:47.5	person. Maybe we have a bad connection.
0:49.7	I'm sorry about that.
0:51.4	There's more coming up.
0:53.0	After this.
1:00.8	Music Sorry about that. There's more coming up after this. From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
1:04.4	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
1:05.6	And I'm Bob Garfield.
1:07.4	In Tuesday's State of the Union address, President Obama said it was time to finish the job of closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay,
1:16.4	exactly six years since he ordered it promptly closed.
1:20.8	And I will not relent in my determination to shut it down.
1:23.9	It is not who we are.
1:25.8	It's time to close Gitmo.
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