Life at Guantanamo Bay: Stories of the 774 Detainees

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Partner:: New America Foundation
Location:: New America Foundation
Washington, D.C.
Event Date:: 03.12.08
Speakers:: Peter Bergen,; Thomas B. Wilner,; Andy Worthington
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Summary: Fragments have emerged in books and interviews, and in declassified accounts from the detainees' lawyers, but until now there has been no comprehensive overview of all their cases.

On March 12 the New America Foundation hosted a panel discussion featuring Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files: The stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison and Tom Wilner, attorney for Guantanamo Detainees.

New America's Schwartz senior fellow and CNN terrorist analyst Peter Bergen moderated the session - New America Foundation

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Peter Bergen

Peter Bergen is a print and television journalist, and the author of Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden (Free Press, 2001), which has been translated into 18 languages. His new book is The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of Al Qaeda's Leader (Free Press, 2006). Both books were named among the best non-fiction books of the year by The Washington Post, and documentaries based on the books were nominated for Emmys in 2002 and 2007. Mr. Bergen is CNN's terrorism analyst; an adjunct professor at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and a fellow at New York University�s Center on Law & Security. He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The New Republic, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, the International Herald Tribune, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Rolling Stone, Washington Monthly, The Nation, The Times (UK), The Daily Telegraph (UK), The Guardian (UK), The Sunday Times (UK), and Prospect (UK). He is a member of the editorial board of Studies in Conflict and Terrorism and has testified on Capitol Hill. Mr. Bergen holds a M.A in modern history from New College, Oxford University.

Thomas B. Wilner

Thomas B. Wilner (born 1944) is the managing partner of Shearman & Sterling's International Trade and Global Relations Practice. Wilner has also represented the high-profile human rights cases of a dozen Kuwaiti citizens detained in the United States naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Wilner earned his law degree in 1969 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Wilner has been admitted to the bar in a number of jurisdictions, including the US Supreme Court in 1975.

Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington is a freelance historian based in London. He is the author of The Guantanamo Files, the first book to tell the stories of all the detainees in America's controversial prison (to be published in September 2007).

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01 hr 17 min 58 sec

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01.: Peter Bergen: Introduction

01 min 22 sec

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02.: Andy Worthington: Something Rather Extreme

03 min 38 sec

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03.: Tribunal Transcripts

05 min 05 sec

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04.: The Interrogator's War

04 min 58 sec

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05.: Fighting With The Taliban

02 min 02 sec

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06.: 774 Detainees

02 min 59 sec

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07.: Tom Wilner: A Damn Lot Of Innocents

05 min 01 sec

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08.: White House Hearing Vetoes

04 min 55 sec

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09.: The Writ Of Habeas Corpus

05 min 40 sec

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10.: Q1: Closing Guantanamo

08 min 10 sec

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11.: Q2: Releasing A Very Angry Army

03 min 34 sec

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12.: Q3: Invalid Prisoner Review

02 min 10 sec

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13.: Q4: How Is It Possible

03 min 14 sec

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14.: Q5: We Are Afraid

05 min 40 sec

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15.: Q6: Inadmissible Evidence

05 min 12 sec

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16.: Q7: Torture, Minors

05 min 46 sec

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17.: Q8: Those Captured From Other Countries

01 min 58 sec

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18.: Q9: Throwing Away Our Principles

06 min 34 sec

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Andy Worthington Exposes the Guantanamo Bay Tribunal

04 min 43 sec

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Andy Worthington Impugns the Legality of Guantanamo

04 min 03 sec

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Tom Wilner Denounces the Suspension of Habeas Corpus

05 min 40 sec

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