Pradhan, Alka - short clip - ClassificationofMemories
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| (marker scribbling) | 0:00 | |
| - | You know, even though these are his memories, | 0:03 |
| these are his experiences, the government continues | 0:05 | |
| to classify them and continues to prevent him | 0:09 | |
| from being able to tell the world about them. | 0:12 | |
| And he says that. | 0:15 | |
| Interviewer | If they were random, | 0:18 |
| if they were random, they wouldn't be classified. | 0:21 | |
| - | Yeah. | 0:23 |
| If they, | 0:24 | |
| well, he basically says if this had happened to, | 0:25 | |
| he makes the point often | 0:30 | |
| that if this had been other people, | 0:31 | |
| anybody but these detainees, this wouldn't, | 0:34 | |
| this is not classified. | 0:37 | |
| Like since when? | 0:38 | |
| I mean, you see police brutality | 0:41 | |
| on a daily basis in our country. | 0:44 | |
| I mean, arguably, that does not make the police look good. | 0:47 | |
| But people are not, I mean, it does happen, | 0:49 | |
| but people are not considered gagged | 0:52 | |
| just because what they say | 0:57 | |
| may be contrary to the government. | 1:00 | |
| That's not a thing that happens. | 1:03 | |
| That is not legal. | 1:04 | |
| But by virtue of being him, by virtue of being again, | 1:05 | |
| brown, non-citizen, Muslim detainee in the CIA system, | 1:11 | |
| everything he says is classified. | 1:17 | |
| Everything he thinks is classified. | 1:19 | |
| Any Joe on the street | 1:22 | |
| can talk about the CIA rendition program. | 1:25 | |
| Can look up what happened there, | 1:30 | |
| who was reported to have been held there. | 1:33 | |
| They can even look up all the public reports | 1:35 | |
| about maybe where the black sites were, | 1:38 | |
| something that I can neither confirm nor deny | 1:40 | |
| as a government official. | 1:45 | |
| But he can't. | 1:49 | |
| He can't talk about any of it, | 1:50 | |
| and he's the one who it happened to. | 1:51 | |
| James Mitchell, one of the psychologists, one of the doctors | 1:56 | |
| who designed this program can write a book | 2:00 | |
| giving out all sorts of details | 2:04 | |
| that the government would classify | 2:07 | |
| if they came from Ammar al-Baluchi. | 2:09 | |
| If Ammar al-Baluchi wrote that book from his perspective, | 2:12 | |
| and we tried putting that through classification review, | 2:15 | |
| that wouldn't see the light of day. | 2:17 | |
| But because James Mitchell wrote it, | 2:19 | |
| and it makes the government look good, | 2:21 | |
| made it past all the sensors. | 2:24 | |
| He's on a book tour right now. | 2:25 | |
| On top of the $40 million he got from the CIA, | 2:27 | |
| he's now earning royalties from his book. | 2:29 |