Neely, Brandon - short clip - Facebook
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| - | Oh, yeah, every day before | 0:00 |
| we consider like a briefing. | 0:01 | |
| They would tell you where to work | 0:03 | |
| on what happened the night before. | 0:04 | |
| And right beforehand, | 0:05 | |
| they just be like a rumor. | 0:06 | |
| And these are the worst of the worst. | 0:07 | |
| These are the guys that would kill your family | 0:09 | |
| in a heartbeat, | 0:10 | |
| have good day. | 0:11 | |
| It was every day. | 0:12 | |
| Interviewer | And when you started talking to detainees | 0:13 |
| what made you start talking to them? | 0:16 | |
| How did that even happen? | 0:17 | |
| - | Pretty much being bored . | 0:19 |
| And I know it was surprising to me. | 0:20 | |
| There were so many guys speak English | 0:22 | |
| speak English as good as I spoke. | 0:23 | |
| And then, he would start talking to some of them. | 0:25 | |
| And you realize like, man, | 0:28 | |
| this guy was doing the same thing | 0:30 | |
| I was doing just two weeks ago. | 0:31 | |
| You know, | 0:33 | |
| like I spoke to Ruhan | 0:33 | |
| like, we were talking about girls, nightclubs | 0:34 | |
| is just music. | 0:37 | |
| And we had a lot of, | 0:38 | |
| and we had listened a lot of same music | 0:39 | |
| and it was just, I mean, | 0:41 | |
| this has to be a guy that I would | 0:42 | |
| probably hang out with back in the States. | 0:43 | |
| But, here he is in Guantanamo. | 0:45 | |
| But, like at the time I thought | 0:48 | |
| everybody there was guilty. | 0:49 | |
| So I was just like, okay, | 0:50 | |
| you going to feed me line of BS, | 0:52 | |
| but he's had to do something to get here. | 0:53 | |
| So | 0:55 | |
| - | Are you in touch with other detainees today? | 0:56 |
| - | I'll talk to a Ruhan Dafeick | 1:00 |
| through a Facebook and a text message, | 1:02 | |
| you know maybe a couple of times a week, | 1:04 | |
| once every other week. | 1:05 | |
| And we exchange photos of the kids. | 1:06 | |
| And, | 1:08 | |
| I mean just normal conversation. | 1:09 | |
| I mean, since we're past the whole | 1:11 | |
| awkward stage, you know | 1:12 | |
| we're just | 1:14 | |
| like, I mean, I would say that we're friends. | 1:14 | |
| - | And do you think it's surprising to you | 1:17 |
| that you're on Facebook with people who we used to lock | 1:18 | |
| up? | 1:22 | |
| - | Yeah, it was funny because | 1:23 |
| I hadn't been on Facebook long and | 1:24 | |
| I can't remember. | 1:27 | |
| It was about the time I was doing some research | 1:28 | |
| on Gautanamo | 1:29 | |
| and saw the whole thing about the Lipton three. | 1:30 | |
| I was like, yeah, I remember those guys. | 1:32 | |
| And I just for kicks. | 1:34 | |
| I put in Defies name and there was | 1:35 | |
| it just popped up with his picture. | 1:37 | |
| And I said, man, no way, this guy's on Facebook. | 1:38 | |
| So, I sent him a message and we just started talking | 1:41 | |
| through there and it was just it just | 1:43 | |
| where do you find everybody on Facebook now? | 1:45 |
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