Bryson, Jennifer - short clip - ChannelingForGood

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-	It is an environment in which we can provide	0:00
	safe and humane treatment for the detainees	0:03
	who are, who are there.	0:07
	However I do see going forward	0:09
	that we're going to have to find new ways forward.	0:12
	And when I worked at Guantanamo,	0:16
	I wished passionately	0:19
	and there were others there that I worked with,	0:21
	and when we would have time for conversations	0:23
	outside of work, we would discuss this.	0:26
	I really wish that from early on there had been a program	0:28
	of de- and counter-radicalization	0:33
	because it became clear that many of these individuals	0:36
	were going to be going home at some point,	0:38
	and we should have recognized that more openly upfront.	0:41
	In addition to that,	0:46
	we were often interrogating detainees who had been	0:48
	in leadership positions.	0:53
	Granted, some of those leadership positions	0:55
	may have involved training others to build bombs,	0:57
	but these were individuals who were smart	1:01
	and capable as human beings.	1:05
	And the human capacity that I encountered there	1:09
	in the intelligence of some of the detainees	1:13
	in their self-discipline and their hard work,	1:16
	if there would only be a way	1:19
	to help channel that human capacity	1:21
	into positive things.	1:23
	Especially as these detainees	1:25
	some have already gone home and more will go home,	1:28
	I wish we would have more of an eye to that.	1:32

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Title:

Bryson, Jennifer - short clip - ChannelingForGood

Date:

December 21, 2011

Interviewer:

Honigsberg, Peter Jan

Interviewee:

Bryson, Jennifer

Role:

Description:

This interview may include descriptions of violence.
Interrogation Team Chief, Guantanamo
Jennifer Bryson, female, age 44, was an interrogator at Guantanamo Bay from 2004-2006, and the first female team chief. She has since written articles arguing that the U.S. should reject torture and use rapport-based interrogation.
Description was provided by Witness to Guantanamo.

Subject:

United States

Format:

oral histories

Language:

English

Extent:

2:12:47

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Witness to Guantanamo

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Witness to Guantanamo Video Collection, 2009-2017

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