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no bull and the aftermath.

I had decided to go to Gitmo.

I said I was going to go for six months.

I ended up staying for a year and a half.

And the reason I ended up staying for a year and a half was that I just felt, you know,

with every day I just felt this increasing sense of responsibility to the whole process.

I was talking to these detainees who some of whom wouldn't talk to anybody but me or

I was finding translations that weren't correct and I was, you know, spending all this

time re-translating.

And so I just felt this real responsibility to stay and make something good out of a

really bad situation.

I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the LawFair podcast December 18, 2020.

Jasmine Elgamel is a non-resident senior fellow with the Middle East program at the Atlantic

Council. Between 2008 and 2015, she served as a Middle East advisor in the Office of

Secretary of Defense and later as a special assistant to three undersecretaries of defense

for policy.

She is the author of a recent article in New Line's magazine entitled Lost and Found

in Guantanamo Bay.

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