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Serial S04 - Ep. 7: The Forever Reporter

Serial

Serial Productions & The New York Times

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

4.581.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

One reporter has been covering Guantánamo since the day the prison opened. The military would like her to go home now.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Previously, on cereal.

0:04.0

Our mission today is to provide safe, humane, legal, and transparent custody of the detainees here.

0:10.0

Safe legal, transparent care.

0:12.0

You guys like to stop at a small little mini-mart? safe legal transparent care. Safely.

0:13.0

I'd like to stop at a small little mini-mart

0:15.0

real quick on this side.

0:16.0

It's just a small one just again if you want a snack or something.

0:19.0

They also have souvenirs there, but you'll have another...

0:21.0

This is something that they would never have made public, but the day of the

0:26.4

riot, morale was never higher.

0:29.4

How are we going to basically explain? We let this happen.

0:36.3

From serial productions in the New York Times,

0:41.9

this is serial season 4, Guantanamo.

0:44.4

One prison camp told week by week.

0:46.1

I'm Sarah Kaneig. Oh, We're going to jump forward to present day Guantanamo Guantanamo, now-ish, for the rest of this series.

1:15.4

I'm going to start in summer of 2022 when Dana and I went down to Guantanamo a second time.

1:21.0

Media can't tour the prison compound anymore, but you can go down to

1:25.8

report on the special court at Guantanamo called the military commissions. Five

1:30.4

cases are still in some phase of criminal prosecution,

1:33.2

including the case against the men accused of planning the 9-11 attacks.

1:36.8

So we went to the court, which we'd never seen in action before.

1:40.5

Two other reporters are there with us, John Ryan from a legal affairs

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