Guantanamo and Its Aftermath

Nov 12, 2008

University of California, Berkeley

Human rights experts released their report Guantánamo and Its Aftermath: U.S. Detention and Interrogation Practices and Their Impact on Detainees, published by the Human Rights Center of the University of California, Berkeley, in partnership with the Center for Constitutional Rights. The report details the experience of detainees at .. Read More
Human rights experts released their report Guantánamo and Its Aftermath: U.S. Detention and Interrogation Practices and Their Impact on Detainees, published by the Human Rights Center of the University of California, Berkeley, in partnership with the Center for Constitutional Rights. The report details the experience of detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and in Afghanistan, from the time of their capture through their return home. The authors discussed their findings and the implications for the Obama administration. They responded to questions from reporters at the National Press Club.

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TIME SPEAKER TEXT
00:00:37 Unidentified Speaker GOOD MORNING. I AM THE DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY. THANK...
00:01:49 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU, BARBARA. THANK YOU, ALL FOR COMING. I GUESS THERE ARE TWO QUESTIONS. WHY ARE WE DOING THIS...
00:11:47 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU. THANK YOU, ERIC. I WANT TO BEGIN WITH JUST A FEW STATISTICS TO GIVE YOU A PICTURE OF HOW...
00:20:34 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU, LAUREL. MY NAME IS VINCE WARREN, I AM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR THE CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL...
00:29:26 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU. WE WILL TAKE QUESTIONS. IF YOU WOULD PLEASE IDENTIFY YOURSELF AND IF THERE IS A PARTICULAR...
00:29:50 Unidentified Speaker I'M WITH CNN. I THINK YOU SAID 24 DETAINEES HAD NO BAD EXPERIENCE AND A 31 ALLEGEDLY ABUSIVE EXPERIENCES....
00:30:10 Unidentified Speaker THE QUESTION WAS, WE HAVE NOTED OUT OF THE 55 WE SPOKE ABOUT, FORMER DETAINEES WE SPOKE ABOUT IN TARIFFS...
00:30:48 Unidentified Speaker I'M WITH THE "WASHINGTON POST." FOR LAUREL -- FOR LAUREL, YOU RECOMMENDED THE ABILITY TO RECOMMEND...
00:31:20 Unidentified Speaker WHAT I HAD INTENDED TO SAY WAS THAT THE COMMISSION TO RECOMMEND CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS AND SHOULD...
00:32:22 Unidentified Speaker THANKS, LAUREL. WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT COMMISSIONS IN THE UNITED STATES CONTEST -- CONTEXT AND IN THE...
00:34:03 Unidentified Speaker I'M FROM THE ASPEN INSTITUTE. WHERE ANY OF THE FORMER DETAINEES THAT YOU INTERVIEWED -- HOW THEY'D...
00:34:41 Unidentified Speaker WOULD YOU REPEAT THE QUESTIONS?
00:34:43 Unidentified Speaker I WILL REPEAT THE FIRST QUESTIONS. IN ANY OF THE 62 DETAINEES THAT WE INTERVIEWED, HAD BEEN SUBJECT...
00:35:27 Unidentified Speaker THE OTHER QUESTION IS WHETHER THERE SHOULD BE TRIALS -- AND I AM ASSUMING WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE...
00:37:18 Unidentified Speaker ONE OF THE THINGS ABOUT GUANTANAMO THAT EVERYONE HAS BEEN SAYING IS TO CLOSE IT. WHAT DO YOU DO WITH...
00:40:21 Unidentified Speaker I'M FROM THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES. ERIC, COULD YOU PROVIDE A LITTLE MORE ON THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF THE...
00:40:45 Unidentified Speaker THE SECOND QUESTION IS A PERSONNEL THAT HAVE WORKED THEIR. NOT IN OUR INTERVIEWS. THE TWO QUESTIONS...
00:42:15 Unidentified Speaker I WOULD JUST REFER YOU TO THE REPORT. THERE'LL BE MORE PRECISE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS OF DEMOGRAPHICS,...
00:42:52 Unidentified Speaker FOLLOWING UP FROM THE QUESTION FROM THE CHAFF FROM THE "WASHINGTON POST, " I WONDER TO WHAT EXTENT...
00:43:53 Unidentified Speaker THE QUESTION IS THE CONSEQUENCES OVERSEAS FOR A DOMESTIC COMMISSION, IN PARTICULAR POTENTIAL IMPACT...
00:45:31 Unidentified Speaker THANKS FOR THE QUESTION. I THINK THAT IS RIGHT, THE CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS HAS FILED A NUMBER...
00:46:54 Unidentified Speaker ANY MORE QUESTIONS?
00:47:00 Unidentified Speaker DOES THE CENTER -- WHAT DOES IT PROPOSE FOR HANDLING FUTURE TERRORISM SUSPECTS? IN OTHER WORDS, AN...
00:47:16 Unidentified Speaker TO BEGIN TO ANSWER THE QUESTION, I THINK IN THE REPORT THE CALL FOR A COMMISSION ALSO BEGINS TO LOOK...
00:48:45 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THERE IS A PRESS RELEASE AT THE BACK WITH CONTACT INFORMATION AND WE WOULD BE...

NOTE: The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.

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