Out Of Gitmo

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🗓️ 22 February 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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FRONTLINE and NPR examine the struggle over freeing prisoners once deemed international terrorists.

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0:00.0	This is an audio cast of the Frontline program out of Gitmo, released February 21st on PBS and on Frontline.org.
0:09.0	The correspondent is Arun Roth of NPR and WGPH News.
0:31.0	Tonight on Frontline, two special reports about the controversial prison at Guantanamo Bay.
0:36.0	First, President Trump has vowed no more detainees will be released from Gitmo.
0:42.0	Gitmo, we're keeping that open and we're going to load it up with bad dudes.
0:46.0	NPR correspondent Arun Roth follows the complicated story of one of the last detainees to be released.
0:52.0	Do you think there was a misunderstanding about the terms of your release?
1:01.0	Frontline is made possible by contributions to your PBS station from viewers like you.
1:09.0	Thank you.
1:11.0	And by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
1:14.0	Major support for Frontline is provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation,
1:20.0	committed to building more just, verdant, and peaceful world.
1:24.0	More information is available at MacFound.org.
1:28.0	Additional support is provided by the Park Foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues.
1:35.0	The John and Helen Glesner Family Trust, supporting trustworthy journalism that informs and inspires.
1:42.0	And by the Frontline Journalism Fund, with major support from John and Joanne Higgler.
1:58.0	I've been covering the prison at Guantanamo Bay throughout the Obama years.
2:11.0	President Obama, rushing to empty Guantanamo Bay just days before leaving office.
2:16.0	I returned just before Obama left office as he and Donald Trump fought over the future of this place and the men detained here.
2:24.0	He's allowing people to get out that are terrible people.
2:27.0	Make no mistake. We won't close Guantanamo Prison.
2:30.0	Get my way keeping that open and we're going to load it up with bad dudes.
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