Unauthorized Disclosure - Episode 36

This week on the “Unauthorized Disclosure” podcast the guest is Cori Crider, a director for and a counsel representing Guantanamo prisoner Abu Wa'el Dhiab. She describes the kind of treatment Dhiab has suffered in Guantanamo while he has been on hunger strike and why he decided to bring a lawsuit against the United States government. She highlights the significance of 32 videos of Dhiab's force-feeding and forced removal from his cell, which a federal judge has ordered be released (although the government is appealing). She also discusses the critical role she plays as an attorney who can publicly advocate for Dhiab while he remains in indefinite detention. During the discussion portion, hosts Kevin Gosztola and Rania Khalek debrief and reflect on "Ferguson October," since they were both there in St. Louis last weekend to cover the "weekend of resistance." Then, the show highlights plans by the Obama administration to for battle in Syria, which will make it possible for inmates and former offenders to be silenced if they want to engage in speech and that only 4% of US drone strike victims in Pakistan have been al Qaeda.