Since two thousand two, about 780 detainees have been held at point or the other in guantanimo bay, cuba. And about 39 remain to day. Who ends up there? I mean, everybody you know in in the fog of war, sort of, you know, us. Forces are in afghanistan. They're fighting the talaban. There are a lot of bad guys there. We're round people up and were literally holding tribunals on the spot,. trying to determine whether they should be put on a plane and sent to gitmo. You can imagine the number of people that were turned in wrongly, either by a neighbor who held a grudge against them
A former Defense Department adviser says President Biden might succeed where President Obama failed, and the man formerly known as “Detainee 441” speaks.
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