Why America can’t quit Guantanamo Bay

Worldly

Vox Media Podcast Network

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.4 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Zack, Jenn, and returning guest Alex Ward discuss the controversial prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and President Trump’s announcement this week that he’s keeping it open and may send ISIS fighters there. On Elsewhere, the gang looks at a bizarre and hilarious story out of Spain involving a police chase, a car filled with thousands of oranges, and a decades-old battle between Spain and France over...fruit. Zack waxes poetic about one of his favorite essays on torture, Jenn shows off her legal knowledge, and Alex proves why his standup comedy career was short-lived. Referenced Works: Trump just signed an executive order that will keep Guantanamo open Liberalism, Torture, and the Ticking Bomb The oversized rodents that could take over Guantanamo Bay prison Police pull over a car and oranges come tumbling out Further Reading: 7 Key Points From the C.I.A. Torture Report Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program Gitmo is Back in Business Guantanamo by the Numbers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:25.5	until March 15th 2018. Hello and welcome to worldly part of the Vox Media Podcast network.
0:39.8	My name is Zach Beecham.
0:41.3	Yoki Driesen is out this week, but we are joined as ever by Jennifer Williams.
0:45.2	Hello.
0:46.1	And our special guest, Alex Ward.
0:48.9	Happy to be here.
0:49.9	Today we're going to be talking about Guantanamo Bay, the US naval base in Cuba, specifically the prison there, which has become one of the most infamous detention centers in the world.
1:01.0	Though Barack Obama vowed to shut it down and did release
1:04.7	a lot of the prisoners there, he couldn't manage to close it by the time that he
1:08.2	left office. That left things to President Trump, who finally addressed the issue in his State of the Union this year.
1:14.4	In it, he said that he signed an order to Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, to re-examine our military
1:21.0	detention policy and to keep open the detention facilities in
1:26.9	Guantanamo Bay.
1:29.7	So that sounds an awful lot like a reversal of the Obama vow to shut it down, right
1:36.6	Jen?
1:37.6	Yeah, it is.
1:38.6	He also, right before that speech, signed an executive order literally reversing an executive order that
1:44.0	that President Barack Obama had signed in his first days in office
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