The moral, military and financial cost of Guantanamo Bay, 20 years later

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

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🗓️ 2 February 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

20 years ago, President Bush ordered the creation of a secretive prison at Guantanamo Bay. Many were innocent. Many were tortured. Two presidents tried to close Gitmo -- and failed. And we’re still stuck with it. Michael Lehnert, Moazzam Begg and Carol Rosenberg join Meghna Chakrabarti.

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0:51.6	We last met in an hour of shock and suffering.
0:54.4	In four short months, our nation has comforted the victims, begun to rebuild New York and the Pentagon.
1:04.0	Rally to great coalition, captured, arrested and rid the world of thousands of terrorists
1:11.7	destroyed Afghanistan's terrorist training camps, saved the people from starvation and
1:17.2	freed a country from brutal oppression.
1:19.4	The American flag flies again over our embassy in Kabul.
1:28.8	Terrorists who once occupied Afghanistan now occupy cells at Guantanamo Bay.
1:36.5	President George W. Bush delivering the State of the Union address on January 29, 2002.
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