The Guantanamo Files - radio and TV

Last week was a busy week for matters relating to Guantánamo and the “War on Terror,” and after the successes of the last month, in Boumediene v. Bush and Parhat v. Gates, not entirely reassuring. On Tuesday, the Fourth Circuit appellate court ruled, in the case of US resident Ali al-Marri, that the President can, [...]

Last Thursday, the ever engaging — and mightily indignant — Scott Horton interviewed me for Antiwar Radio, which was a great pleasure. Scott interviewed me twice last year, and I was delighted to be invited back because we always have such fun trying to put the world to rights. The interview’s available here, and I [...]

On Thursday May 15, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Steve Rendall for CounterSpin, the radio show produced by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR). Picking up on the story of the release of al-Jazeera journalist Sami al-Haj from Guantánamo, which, as FAIR noted, “merited just a 72 word squib in the Washington [...]

During my visit to the United States in March to promote my book The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison, I was interviewed by Michael Ramadan Jones for Voices of Our World, a weekly show, with a global overview, that focuses on the stories of those oppressed or otherwise [...]

On Thursday April 24, I was invited to take part in the Riz Khan show on al-Jazeera, with released Guantánamo prisoner Murat Kurnaz, and Paul Glastris, the editor-in-chief of Washington Monthly, whose latest issue features an extraordinary roll-call of politicians, military figures and other experts condemning the US administration’s use of torture. The show is [...]