Lewis, Paul - short clip - TransferNotRelease

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-	There are some countries who really wanted	0:02
	to help us but didn't want it to be known.	0:05
	So they didn't want, even the fact that we were	0:09
	visiting with them, but let's say hypothetically,	0:12
	the working premise was you wanted to have,	0:18
	we wanted to have an agreement at least for a couple years,	0:22
	and which the country would say	0:24
	we're going to do everything under our domestic law to	0:28
	make sure this detainee can't travel.	0:30
	Not a guarantee, you know, they have court systems and	0:33
	but I wanted to know what that process was and yeah,	0:36
	track record if they'd had previous detainees.	0:41
	So, great Britain, we looked at the process	0:44
	in the United Kingdom.	0:46
	Again, there's no guarantees in a democracy	0:48
	but the detainees were told what, you know,	0:50
	what the security assurances were and	0:53
	yeah, the understanding was a detainee was not going to be	0:59
	forced to go to a country they did not want to go to	1:03
	and if they didn't understand the circumstances, so yeah.	1:06
	Do I want to get out of Gitmo, yeah.	1:10
	So, maybe I'll take a deal, but on the other hand,	1:12
	the understanding was that they knew	1:16
	what they were getting into.	1:19
	This was not release, it was transfer	1:20
	subject to restrictions.	1:23

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Title:

Lewis, Paul - short clip - TransferNotRelease

Date:

May 31, 2017

Interviewer:

Honigsberg, Peter Jan

Interviewee:

Lewis, Paul

Role:

Government

Description:

This interview may include descriptions of violence.
Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure
Paul Lewis, male, age 58, was the Department of Defense Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure from October 2013 until February 2, 2017, and during his tenure was able to reduce the number of detainees remaining at the prison to 41.
Description was provided by Witness to Guantanamo.

Subject:

United States

Format:

oral histories

Language:

English

Extent:

1:29:40

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Witness to Guantanamo

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Witness to Guantanamo Video Collection, 2009-2017

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