Rosenberg, Carol - short clip - ReportersUnderMilitaryEscort

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-	Certainly today, certainly currently	0:00
	you are under escort all the time.	0:03
	There is a member of the, when we are writing at,	0:05
	when we are filing our stories for military commissions	0:08
	and we are sitting in the press room	0:11
	with a phone and a computer writing our stories.	0:14
	If I call up and do an interview, if I sit there	0:18
	and I'm writing my story and I turned to a colleague,	0:21
	there is always somebody listening.	0:23
	There is always someone in uniform listening.	0:25
	And it is a subject of, of unhappiness.	0:27
	I mean, you don't get cops	0:31
	sitting in police department press rooms,	0:33
	listening in on reporters.	0:37
	You don't have at the Pentagon press room	0:39
	a member of the public affairs unit sitting there	0:43
	in earshot listening in.	0:47
	But at Guantanamo they've made a decision	0:48
	that at the war court there will be a soldier or sailor	0:50
	in every room where somebody is writing	0:53
	and conducting interviews.	0:55
	And they say they're not listening in.	0:57
	They say that they're there just to make sure	0:58
	that everything's going right, but it's very different.	1:00
	And when you are there currently,	1:03
	you are under, you're in custody.	1:05
	You've agreed to go in custody.	1:08
	So you're always in the custody of the military,	1:09
	and you are under escort every hour of every day,	1:11
	except when you are sleeping in your tent	1:15
	where they do not go, but they have the right to.	1:18

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Title:

Rosenberg, Carol - short clip - ReportersUnderMilitaryEscort

Date:

November 14, 2011

Interviewer:

Honigsberg, Peter Jan

Interviewee:

Rosenberg, Carol

Role:

Journalist

Description:

This interview may include descriptions of violence.
Journalist, The Miami Herald
Carol Rosenberg, female, age 52, a journalist for The Miami Herald, has covered the Guantanamo Bay detention center longer than any journalist, beginning with the arrival of the first prisoners on January 11, 2002.
Description was provided by Witness to Guantanamo.

Subject:

United States

Format:

oral histories

Language:

English

Extent:

2:23:21

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Witness to Guantanamo

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Witness to Guantanamo Video Collection, 2009-2017

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