Serial S04 - Trailer
Serial
Serial Productions & The New York Times
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🗓️ 21 March 2024
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Right after September 11th, we created a brand new criminal justice system at Guantanamo Bay, |
| 0:07.0 | a prison and a court to deal with people we suspected of being terrorists. |
| 0:11.0 | To do what we wanted to do at Guantanamo, we pushed aside the old rules for detaining prisoners of war, |
| 0:17.0 | so we can interrogate people how we wanted and hold them indefinitely without charging them with a crime. |
| 0:23.6 | Maybe you have an idea of what it's like to work at Guantanamo Bay. |
| 0:26.9 | Put that aside for a second. |
| 0:28.2 | You know, you're on 42 square miles. You've got like five great beaches. |
| 0:32.5 | I partied my ass off in Gitmo. |
| 0:34.0 | Just everyone was getting drunk and getting laid. |
| 0:36.7 | I mean, I love Gitmo. Like, it's, |
| 0:39.3 | it's La La La Land. We're like a Disneyland employee. |
| 0:45.9 | Hmm, let's talk about that comparison there. Oh no, that was a joke. Definitely a joke. It's |
| 0:51.4 | nothing like, nothing like Disneyland. Our mission today is to provide safe, human, legal, and transparent. |
| 0:57.0 | The U.S. government has its own story about what's been happening inside Guantanamo all these years. |
| 1:02.0 | Legal, transparent care. |
| 1:04.0 | Transparen care, custody, and control. |
| 1:05.0 | But we wanted the people who served at Guantanamo and survived Guantanamo to tell their stories. Now that they've left |
| 1:11.6 | Guantanamo, what would they say now that they couldn't say then? A lot, as it turns out. |
| 1:17.1 | Chaos. I simply put, it was chaotic. You think your Allah is going to help you? You think your |
| 1:22.9 | Quran is correct? You know, it's a bunch of garbage. It's a bop-b-b-b-b-b- Right, what rights? |
| 1:28.6 | Nobody knows you exist here. |
| 1:31.2 | He wasn't tortured. He wasn't physically beaten. He wasn't tortured. He was beaten in the respect |
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