Wilner, Tom - short clip - GuantanamoTooPoliticalForMediaCoverage2

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	(scratching on chalkboard)	0:00
-	To this day, the public doesn't know about Guantanamo.	0:03
	I can only blame that now on the Obama administration.	0:07
	I can't speak out anymore.	0:10
	Nobody listens, but there was a set of facts out there.	0:11
	These are the worst	0:15
	of the worst to try to chip away at that was very tough.	0:15
	Remember what turned against the war?	0:19
	Public opinion against the war in Vietnam?	0:21
	It was that general shooting the guy, and they said	0:24
	one picture is worth so many things.	0:26
	I still believe that the American people	0:29
	if you get the facts before them have a great sense	0:31
	of fairness.	0:33
	But you know, if they're	0:35
	if they think you're holding whole horrible murderers	0:35
	and killers in some way, you can't do it.	0:38
	So that was tough.	0:39
	That was a continual fight.	0:40
	Eventually, you know, 60 minutes did a piece on this,	0:42
	right about the time of Rassoul, 60 minutes two.	0:45
	But early on, I was in contact	0:49
	with the producer of 60 minutes about it to say, you know	0:51
	here's the story about this.	0:55
	Based on the Gutman article on thing	0:56
	you need to do a story about this.	0:58
	She wanted to do a story.	1:00
	It was an editor, a producer there.	1:01
	She called me back and we went through the whole thing.	1:04
	She said, the network has killed it.	1:06
	It's too political.	1:08
	Too political, an issue of a fair hearings for captives.	1:10
	So yeah, the news media backed off	1:15
	and it was always extraordinary to me.	1:18
	You'd have one good article, like, you know, Roy Gutman's,	1:21
	Jane marrow later on some other things, you know	1:25
	and then it would just sort of drop.	1:29
	And the next person wouldn't even know	1:31
	about the prior things we could get no traction.	1:33

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Title:

Wilner, Tom - short clip - GuantanamoTooPoliticalForMediaCoverage2

Date:

August 9, 2010

Interviewer:

Honigsberg, Peter Jan

Interviewee:

Wilner, Tom

Role:

Detainee Attorney

Description:

This interview may include descriptions of violence.
Detainee Attorney
Tom Wilner, male, age 66, represented several Kuwaiti detainees before the Supreme Court after being contacted by their families in early 2002. He was Counsel of record to Guantanamo detainees in Rasul v. Bush, decided in June 2004, and counsel of record in Boumediene v. Bush, decided in June 2008.
Description was provided by Witness to Guantanamo.

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United States

Format:

oral histories

Language:

English

Extent:

2:09:51

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Witness to Guantanamo

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Witness to Guantanamo Video Collection, 2009-2017

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