Habeas Schmabeas at Gitmo: A camp full of our mistakes. A Must-Hear!

[kimpossible]

The public radio show "This American Life" this week airs a devastating expose about the prisoners at Guantanamo. They reveal details gleaned from the recent Gitmo document dump that show shockingly high numbers of people deemed innocent are still being detained. Live interviews with former detainees show just how ordinary some of these mistakenly detained people really are - far from the "worst of the worst" terrorists that we're supposed to believe are held at Gitmo.

http://www.thislife.org

The show was so riveting that I had to sit in the parking lot at Office Depot for 20 minutes to listen. I couldn't tear myself away to go into the store, and besides I was afraid I'd start crying or screaming or both if I tried.

Listen to it on Sunday if your NPR station carries the show, or if you have Sirius or XM. The streaming audio should be up in a few days at http://www.thislife.org/pages/descriptions/06/310.html .

Has anybody else heard "Habeas Schmabeas" yet? What did you think?

[kimpossible]

1. Update: podcast is up at audible and iTunes

You can download the whole thing if you subscribe, or listen to a sample snippet online, about how they engineer life at Gitmo to make prisoners feel completely hopeless and alone. And about the two guys who were imprisoned for 3 years because they wrote some jokes.

http://www.audible.com/thisamericanlife

[Warren DeMontague]

2. Yeah, well, Mr. Abu Ghraib, you know, the iconic guy with the hood--

I guess he got picked up for complaining about the US Military dumping trash in a field, or something (not just a terra-ist, an environmentalist! Quick- hook him up to a car battery!) similar. Then, they asked him where Osama Bin Laden is, and he said "Afghanistan"--- and how do you know? "I saw it on the television"

Yep. Those are some real evildoers we've got in them places.

[kimpossible]

3. Kick for the weekday crowd.