I think we do have a manual here they
got a chicken because of some fish you
can vegetable coworker there
Samantha Mary gives the bread this one
chocolate cookie for me a cookie
they got a choice the tin is like the
cookies must what they like because
apparently squares they like to have a
son you know do you ever get feedback
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when we landed at Guantanamo Bay for our
prison tour we didn't expect to see this
skate park
mini-golf in a gift shop It was as if no
one around us realized this island is
home to the most notorious detention
center in the world just a few miles
from here where the highest value
detainees live Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
the 9/11 5 and Here I am
McDonald's eating a happy meal
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welcome to Gitmo during the 2008
election President Obama campaigned on
the promise to close the Guantanamo Bay
detention center a place that had
sparked widespread criticism of the Bush
administration now seven years later
over a hundred detainees are still there
and it doesn't look like it'll be closed
anytime soon
ultimately the president chose not to
pursue bontona MO because he was worried
about siphoning off the precious
political capital that he had which he
wanted to spend on his domestic agenda
do you know clayman is an investigative
reporter who's written on the Obama
administration and their handling of
Guantanamo Bay Obama was trying to save
the banking sector he was trying to save
the automobile industry ultimately he
was trying to get health care reform
passed and politicians have to
prioritize my number-one priority is
keeping the American people safe
Guantanamo is probably the number one
recruitment tool that is used by these
jihadist organizations keeping watch on
ammo open opening it in the first place
represented a a national security threat
to the United States and and that is a
big part of the reason why President
Obama wanted to close Guantanamo it
could really come back to hurt its own
citizens absolutely and it already has
after years of limited access the
Department of Defense says it's more
open to media now so we went down to
find out what we could actually see
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we've heard so many rumors about this
place as a horrible reputation for
censoring journalists but they have a
new mission and the public affairs
officials have told us that their
mission is all about transparency now
having said that we're very quickly told
we couldn't film anyone's face
as far as personnel back down not
fullness around
there's any layout and then it gets out
into the public will give out too much
information about how the camp cirno the
first stop was to meet Zach he's the
cultural advisor in liaison between the
detainees in the guards if the detainees
have a complaint
Zach helps them report it and addresses
their needs there are some detainees who
have spoken out since they've left here
x2 teenies who have said you know I was
just picked up out of nowhere I was you
know an innocent person I had never been
in a terrorist organization by some
twist of fate do you think you could
have had that same fate
anybody could be traveling anywhere and
there is a big event and start gathering
everybody then this whole thing so you
think there's there was a possibility
that you could have been picked up and
put in here as a detainee anybody could
have been anybody could have been that
easy wow that sounds like some bad luck
no I mean bad luck what happens bad luck
can happen to anybody I was pretty
shocked to hear someone from the
Guantanamo staff say that anyone could
have ended up in a Gitmo cell as we
continued on our official media tour we
stopped to the controversial camp x-ray
which is where the first 22 teenies were
held in 2002
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so this is on the interest to the to the
camp x-ray this is what they would
arrive in in the orange jumpsuits
security concerns back then they didn't
want them running around and trying to
make a break for it one of the reasons
why you see this you see them on the
ground is these guards here at the time
they didn't have much more than those
cars they had several people to every
twenty or thirty thirty knees were they
all Muslim they didn't tell us what kind
of guy here the detainees lived in
outdoor cells with concrete floors and
exposed pipes for toilets you've never
seen these before it was all under wraps
and no one knew what was really
happening here so this was the
headquarters area when you hear that
everyone was out here in the heat that
attendees were out here in the heat
sweating so were the saw was the
headquarter guys there was no
air-conditioning here on camp the only
facility that did have air-conditioning
is on the left here this little shack
was the guard dog facility so what
you're saying is that the guards and
detainees both had kind of similarly bad
conditions but the guard dogs got the AC
oddly enough the guard dogs didn't get
the AC yes of the first 20 detainees
that were here nine have been released
three more are cleared for release one
is a convicted war criminal three are
Taliban the others are being held
indefinitely
we were then taken to camp five and we
were looking forward to actually seen
the type of cells detainees live in
today
welcome to camp five Camp Delta's
100-bed maximum-security detention
facility it costs approximately
seventeen point five million dollars to
construct it was put on a barge brought
down here and placed together like Lego
blocks a house anywhere from near 60 to
70 detainees on a daily basis we were
told each detainee in camp 5 is given 95
square feet of living space along with
basic items ranging from toothpaste to
toilet paper detainees that follow the
rules here get the above items those who
don't get the below every detainee
in camp five is either on a one to three
minute check that means every one or
three minutes a guard is looking
directly into the cell assessing the
detainee and also for accountability
purposes do you would you say that some
detainees were as young as 13 when
captured one detainee turned 89 as a
prisoner here
they're from 48 different countries and
according to the government 92% are not
al-qaeda fighters we've read all about
horrible conditions with guards coming
into a cell and aggressively beating
detainees qur'an's being taken away or
you know force-feeding
is that anything that you've witnessed
or you've heard about definitely not we
I would say we have one of the most
professional guard force that I've ever
seen and allegations like that
definitely to me have no leg to stand on
having worked in there for so long
have you had any experience with Islam
before coming here have you had prior
deployments I no not at all no I'm you
know southern part of the United States
and I really experienced anything with
that have you made an effort to learn
anything about the the religion well we
have we have courses we take you know we
respect these guys and we're as
professional as we can be so dude do you
feel like you have an understanding of
the religion understanding no I wouldn't
say understanding okay gentlemen welcome
to camp six
I'm the camp six OIC and I'll be guiding
you through the facility today how many
detainees are you for screening right
now so
sure you've heard this before but you
know certainly against policy now to
discuss any sort of numbers at all
dating books that or any types of books
that are banned here I would say banned
but there's we we did there's a
screening process are you able to tell
us what they're in here for no I cannot
obviously we're getting away from the
question
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