Bradley, Yvonne - short clip - FirstMeeting

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-	I remember the first time going into	0:00
	to see Mr. Mohamed.	0:02
	I, at that particular time, I'm kind of embarrassed to	0:03
	say this now, I was really scared to go into	0:07
	to meet him.	0:11
	And I had no reason to be scared and given my background	0:13
	given my criminal background,	0:16
	given that I've sat face-to-face with people	0:17
	who were convicted of crimes.	0:20
	But I remember walking in there thinking,	0:23
	"Wow, I'm scared	0:25
	to what I can even say to this individual."	0:27
	And I think it was at that point when I started	0:30
	putting together after meeting Mr. Mohamed	0:33
	and seeing him, seeing his demeanor and looking	0:36
	into his eyes and seeing his body language	0:39
	that he was probably more scared of me than I was of him.	0:41
	And I'm coming in and telling him, and he had no choice.	0:45
	I'm coming and telling him, "I'm your attorney."	0:48
	And he's trying to figure out, "Are you really	0:51
	my attorney? Is this a..."	0:54
	Because one of the things I heard	0:56
	that they were doing at Guantánamo, it was	0:58
	after attorneys would meet with certain clients or	1:00
	that individuals who go in, I don't know who they	1:04
	were saying they were attorneys trying	1:06
	to get detainees to confess	1:08
	or open up or make emissions.	1:12
	So part of, I think, probably that was going	1:14
	through his process is,	1:16
	"What kind of trick is this?	1:18
	Is this really real?"	1:19
	Because in Guantánamo, you, it's Alice in Wonderland,	1:20
	you don't know what's real. You don't know what's...	1:23
	It's absolutely madness.	1:26
	So I walk into the cell thinking,	1:30
	"Oh my God, this guy's a terrorist.	1:31
	I'm not going to give him any information.	1:34
	He's probably gonna get something	1:36
	out to do something against me or my family."	1:37
	I walk in there with that type of attitude.	1:39
	I walk out saying, "This is total nonsense."	1:42
	Almost angry because I realized for the first time	1:46
	that whatever I knew about Guantánamo,	1:51
	where I read about Guantánamo,	1:53
	whatever information they had about Binyam	1:55
	was likely not true.	1:59
	And that was the first time when it just hit me like, "Wow	2:00
	how fear and propaganda can make such a difference	2:04
	on how people understand things."	2:08
	And I was probably more mad coming out of that cell	2:10
	with Binyam than I was scared when I first went in.	2:13

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Title:

Bradley, Yvonne - short clip - FirstMeeting

Date:

December 5, 2010

Interviewer:

Honigsberg, Peter Jan

Interviewee:

Bradley, Yvonne

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Description:

This interview may include descriptions of violence.
Military Attorney
Yvonne Bradley, female, age unknown, was a United States Air Force Attorney who vigorously represented former detainee, Binyam Mohamed, a former British resident who went on hunger strike to protest against the conditions at Guantanamo. All charges were dropped by the U.S. Government.
Description was provided by Witness to Guantanamo.

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United States

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oral histories

Language:

English

Extent:

1:31:58

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Witness to Guantanamo

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Witness to Guantanamo Video Collection, 2009-2017

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