This American Life is rerunning its tour through Guantanamo, "Habeas Schmabeus." If you haven't heard it yet, it's well worth listening to, occasionally grimly funny (the Gitmo detainee whose Gitmo guard gradually realizes he's no terrorist; who tells one of his interrogators he doesn't want to go home because he likes him so much; since released without charges or explanation after being held for three years) and immensely troubling. The overwhelming theme of the show is summed up by one of the attorneys for a Uighur from China held by the US for years at Gitmo though it long ago determined he's innocent: "When you take a look at Adel, you are going to realize you have been lied to for a long time."

Transcript here (.pdf).

Posted by Laura at April 28, 2007 12:04 PM