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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