military prison at guantanamo. we will go to mauritania to speak with mohamedou ould slahi, who was jailed for 14 years and tortured at guantanamo but never charged with a crime. his story is told in the new feature film "the mauritanian." we will also speak to the film's director kevin macdonald, as well as one of the lead actors tahar rahim, andsalahi's lawyer played by jodie foster and at the film, nancy hollander. >> he said, i will tell you anything you want. that he told them anything they wanted to hear but it was really information they fed him "you did discontinue?" "we just need you to tell us you did it," so he said, "i did it" but it was all lies because he had not done any of it. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman. the senate passed esident biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus package saturday 50-49 with not one republican voting in favor of the bill. it includes $1400 direct payments for individuals making under

holding people indefinitely without a charge without a trial united states right now is running guantanamo bay detention camp and they come in he has 40 detainees that until 2016 by how much he was one of them his story is being told in a new film called mauretania take a look. people have called you a terrorist or you're how do you respond to. well when i defended someone charged with rape nobody called me a rapist and i defended someone charged with murder nobody dug around my backyard so when someone's accused of terrorism people like you seem to think that's different. you want to represent the head recruiter for 911 constitution doesn't have an asterix at the end that says the terms and conditions apply. to kidnap me from my brother with the back of my head and chains around my body. but to the accuser you have 3 years to charge me with nothing rough justice that's what this administration wants we are seeing the death penalty what if you're wrong. but he built this place you abandon all of your principles all of your laws may go wrong. you need to tell me what happened to him we char

i'm just looking here at the report amnesty international put out about close guantanamo bay detention camp daphne these are people's lives he was scooped up and often they had no charges they were court should people die and this is happening under the jurisdiction of the united states of america where we are right . so you know 1st i just want to say how important this movie is and how grateful i am to mamma do and they see and all of the people who made the movie and just were in participated in that video as well because you know it's like nancy said she can do her legal work and mohamed you have the unfortunate role of being in prison and being able to write about it and amnesty comes in and we campaign for the closure of the detention camp but everybody has role is so important in reminding people that this is what the united states did and i think i'm so glad the movie is out now because so many people in this country have forgotten that the kuantan the most attention camp still exists that the united states is still imprisoning 40 muslim men and most of whom have never been cha

military prison at guantanamo bay. he was never charged.to his lawyer, was read by millions worldwide. >> i am innocent. i am innocent. amna: now, millions more can watch his story in the movie, "the mauritanian." >> not in my wildest dreams have i ever dreams have i ever dreamed that my story would be not only known in a book, but also that book is turned into a major motion picture. amna: slahi, played by actor tahar rahim, was picked up by mauritanian police two months after 9/11. in august 20 -- 2002, he was moved to guantanamo bay, one of detained by the u.s. as enemy hundreds combatants. >> i think there were people who were hungering for the message, we got them. for those who think about guantanamo and see it as men in orange jumpsuits on their knees, the message we got them was very raw at the time. amna: the new york times' carol rosenberg has covered the prison for years. >> guantanamo is more than a place, in some ways. it is the idea that you can pick people up and move them halfway around the globe, and hold them as indefinite

to bring guantanamo bay back into the central conversation.ticularly by having a prisoner, a muslim man, a sympathetic muslim man at the heart of the story. that's what we've never seen. we've never seen the consequences of the war on terror on the innocent muslims who are caught up in and it accused of things they were not guilty of. so obviously i was very pleased to see that a couple of weeks ago, president biden has instituted an official review of guantanamo and we're hoping this is the beginning of the end. [ inaudible ]. >> all right. kevin macdonald, thank you again, and congratulations for the success of the mauritanian. it is available on demand today. >>> fbi director christopher wray on the hot seat over extremist in the united states. coming up, i'll talk to an expert on whether law enforcement is equipped to handle the growing threat. handle the growing threat. ♪ plant-powered creative roots gives kids the hydration they need, with the fruit flavors they love. and one gram of sugar. find creative roots in the kids' juice aisle. s

to guantanamo to look and try to justify what was going on. and he said quote tunnel base is america's battle land. and the moment i heard that it evoked memories of norman burke it evoked memories of what the not nazis were doing experiments. to say they started with the sleep deprivation regime. and then a massive guy disease. it was very dog except close to the bloods. and then he stopped playing these music the bodies on the floor all day long. you know. i cannot explain once someone is but doing. the floor. was. a no war has a moral imperative. america after $911.00 was in shock. and i think we have been deeply frightened and i think that fear how was it exploited certainly in the years after that and has continued to be exploited. but i understand things you more nato entities and. i you know i've met a number of them you know so many probably more than anyone else on earth can you tell me about them. i can't specifically talk about what i have. my meetings with them or what i've learned about these men. the good i've met colleagues shai

rights abuses when the last time you hear or any chinese communist party official talking about guantanamo bay what i charge you sure you are all of the every year number. that's not true every year talk about the national human rights violation by other countries particularly us to. as well as you heard from you know iraq beyond us senator alaska meeting also so i think that you know what what we have got i think china's our visual quality ones that that's be a peaceful competition you know we all have problems you have your problems we have our problem but that's not you often are printing a pound in each other let's not beat each other you know problems let's solve problems china's concentrate on solving its own property issues social issues and you know china has actually at 1300000 people has a basic medicare one a 1000000000 people have or some social security that's a huge biggest achievement so let's solve the problem rather than we really pick on those 2 others and already squeeze on our it's not start run from. even though humanitarian intervention is arguably being a cornerstone

nato countries now for decades you are where all this stuff about change and comes from i mention guantanamo i mean do you think that the cia is involved in propaganda that some people saying that the director of campaign for the week that he has to be added to a translator of guantanamo bay. well i'm not oh i'm not on top of that but i notice chinese foreign ministry spokesperson there are actually being actually a few days ago should have needed one of the news to be. secretary of. defense office basically saying you know there is no afghanistan and house your side of legalization johnson that we can we can chart that was open media how we saw there so i mean we shouldn't really. you know cares to moneyball to our country's internal affairs let's debate all those issues and a difference and you will you know platform let's talk about all these other international conference rather than really without investigation without really a fact proving the to categorize everybody. examined as around us name i am that's been close on china and that's really too much to to to to support to be support

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i just signed an order to keep open the detention facilities in guantanamo bay. cuba doctor and you in cameron of montreal chairman of the organizing committee opened this 3rd world congress of psychiatry the. bees of a day. some enough to terminate. the imagination and drive us forward in this greatest of endeavor. to go see the memorial institute. where my father spent on and off for tragic years. was one year after my bar mitzvah i was 14 and i remember the christmas holidays that year with my father pacing singing serious crazy song from that thinks the thirty's called mary seed oats and dozy dotes of the lambs eat ivy over and over again and my being very puzzled and not understanding what was happening. which is how he ended up in $956.00 going to see cameron at the morial institute the. life for the most chilling experiments we have uncovered took place at this gothic estate called raven strike half way up in montreal. then a drug began to take hold very rapidly. things became very fairy and very frightening. i thought this was the coldest and most imperso

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he is in custody in guantÁnamo.s accused of aiding the terrorists who carried out the 9/11 attacks. but is he really guilty? jodie foster please lawyer nancy hollander. like a real peon, the characte is based on, she also believes in the law. >> how our country is shaped by that, how the world is shaped by that. if there was ever -- if there was anything that made me believe in democracy and the rule of law, it's been making this film. reporter: the film is also based on a true story having to do with 9/11. she loves him, a seemingly perfect love story. but then he becomes one of the terrorists on that fateful day, september, 2001. >> she must have asked herself, was that a monster? could i have loved a monster? but on the other hand, she knows very well he was also lovable. >> [speaking native language] reporter: the film dissects pain without making the main character seem naÏve. that makes "copilot" a successful illustration of the maxim "love is blind." he found the backdrop of the terrorist attacks that changed

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afghanistan and let's not forget that they have tortured prisoners in iraq and they continue to do so in guantanamo but in state they want to run away from from the from the front from these problems from their problems by blaming and lecturing others we want the united states to be pragmatic to be russia not to be calling things by their names not to be in a position where they put the size human rise to this very sad extent riyadh became the main capital of combating terrorism ideologically electronically etc to a point through which you don't hear anymore of any one alleging the kingdom of aiding terrorism and the kingdom actually went the extra mile stone by encouraging its western allies to take a firmer stance against hate and radical groups such as the muslim brotherhood which operate freely in all western nations such as europe and the us i remember a far left media opposite that labeled saudi arabia as an islam for it's like alleging the vatican's of being anti catholics as some have done over history but hang on what about whedon who funded the ice is there in syria then was it not source

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hollander in kevin macdonald's the mauritanian, based on the true story of an innocent man detained at guantanamoon, get out. do you think that it is significant that so many actresses do seem to be turning towards directing? it is wonderful to see all these actresses becoming directors because they have such amazing experience, and i really do think that the best transition to becoming a director is coming from being an actor. i think all of us have a great story to tell. however, the favourite to take best picture and best director, not only at the globes but at the oscars, is chloe zhao, who's come to prominence through the traditional route of independent film—making. she was first noticed a few years ago for two very low—budget movies about american life, 2015's songs my brothers taught me, about two young people living on a native american reservation, and later the rider, set in the world of rodeos. no, i'm not homeless, i'm just. . . houseless. not the same thing, right? no. her latest film, nomadland, is a stunning epic of wide skies and growing horizons for a bereaved woman, fern, livin

prophecy was going to come true that donald trump would be reelected and the democrats were led to guantanamo bay in handcuffs obviously none of that has happened so we're kind of seeing now is the cuban are trying to reconstitute itself around a different set of conspiracy theories rely more heavily on theories that. well within the movement before but don't necessarily revolve around him is there a sense from you that what's happening overseas in terms of how this is played out post january 6th is different in how it's played out the united states in terms of how they make sense of it or how they are how they're responding to it i think they can on communities that we've seen spreading out in places outside of the u.s. are less tied to political outcomes curan on communities in places like japan or less reliant on that typically the communities that we've seen spring up in european countries are very closely tied to 1000 conspiracies and this information and obviously that hasn't come to an end just yet miral talk to me about the german context i mean germany has the largest community of no

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>> i don't believe there has been a single additional person or a new person added to the guantÁnamooing on eight or ten years now and i think i know there have been a number of exceptionally successful terrorism and other prosecutions in that time so i think we would use the federal criminal justice system. >> ms. gupta, let me shift to you. you wrote in a two dozen five article in the court of law review that critical race lawyering is about transforming businesses usual in the criminal justice system, a business that is usually massed as being racially neutral and bias free and we have to transform that business as usual into a counter narrative about police practices, racial bias in the eye rationality and many of our criminal justice policies. that is a quote. let me ask you, should criminal justice policy be race neutral or no? >> senator, thank you for raising that enforcement of our criminal laws needs to be neutrally done but what i was discussing as i recall that it's been a while in that article was the importance of recognizing and naming racial bias in our criminal justi

>> i don't believe there has been a single additional person or a new person added to the guantÁnamocility going on eight or ten years now and i think i know there have been a number of exceptionally successful terrorism and other prosecutions in that time so i think we would use the federal criminal justice system. >> ms. gupta, let me shift to you. you wrote in a two dozen five article in the court of law review that critical race lawyering is about transforming businesses usual in the criminal justice system, a business that is usually massed as being racially neutral and bias free and we have to transform that business as usual into a counter narrative about police practices, racial bias in the eye rationality and many of our criminal justice policies. that is a quote. let me ask you, should criminal justice policy be race neutral or no? >> senator, thank you for raising that enforcement of our criminal laws needs to be neutrally done but what i was discussing as i recall that it's been a while in that article was the importance of recognizing and naming racial bias in our crimin

we put them on guantanamo bay. whole question with haiti -- i don't want to be long-winded about it because haiti begins at the beginning. the beginning s 1804. if you look at haitian history from that particular point, whose hand was always there to impede any kind of progress for the haitian people? impose artificial embargo over 60 years for haiti after his victory in 1864 -- 1804 until after the emancipation when the embargo -- so-called embargo was lifted? from every point from the point of time of coup d'État, the earthquake to the coup d'État of freely elected president in 1989, aristide. for the continuous messing in haitian politics, it is exactly that. from that denial of any kind of political expression within people -- that haitians are haitians because they are. because they exist. they continue to exist. this resistance comes in so many different forms. so we applaud them for the resistance, but we don't talk about the extraordinary pressure that is faced in the undermining of haitian democracy that h

naval installation -- guantanamo bay cuba at the u.s. naval installations and got transferred to the washington navy yard. and they got transferred up to the washington navy yard. customs look through their suitcases and found bottles of rum. the secretary of the navy demanded that these two women get court-martialed. look, they were doing what everyone else is doing. we get transition from one post to the other, everybody is bootlegging alcohol back. the defense said they had to play that they were given these bottles as gifts. they did not know what they were and put them in their suitcases. of course, they were found not guilty. some of their own sailors, for doing something that everyone was doing. the secretary of the navy is trying to make a point out of, a symbolic point out of these two nurses. it is kinda cool. in addition, there is a cool photo and i'll give you some context from the book. this is a young woman who was a dancer at a theater on 15th street near the white house. the scofflaw was invented in 1924. he was so upset

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. >> my last point where would you envision the detainees in guantÁnamo bay. >> i'm sorry senator, newdetainees? >> how would you envision housing them if gitmo is closed? >> i don't leave there has been a single additional new person added to the guantÁnamo facility and going on eight to 10 years. i know there have been another of -- a member of successful prosecutions of terrorism at the times it would use the federal criminal justice system. >> ms. gupta letpt me shift to u wrote a 2005 article review that about transforming business as usual as the criminal -- usually ask masses being racially mutual. we have to transform that business into it under narrative about police practices racial bias and our criminal justice policies. would the criminal justice policy be race-neutral or no? >> senator thank you for raising that. the enforcement of our criminal laws needs to be mutually undone but i was discussing if i recall an it's been a while in that article was the importance of recognizing and naming racial lies in our criminal justice system and being able to advance policies that w

chief prosecutor at guantanamo bay, and counsel to the superintendent at west point. after retirement i was the first head of the army office whose mission was to train prosecutors and defense counsel in the just and competent trial of sexual assault cases. i understand that sexual offenses have a uniquely harmful impact on our fighting forces and on the families who entrust them to serve in our country. i do not believe that the military justice improvement act, or the main and good-faith concerns of its proponents, would improve military justices, or make for a more disciplined force. permit me to make four quick points, after which i'm happy to answer any questions. first is carefully interpret the data, as to be sure the data means what you think it means. there's too many variables in all these data sets. it is precarious to compare prosecution rates without sorting for matters like the sanctions available, and most importantly, what constitutes the numerator. a distinctive feature of the military justice and disciplinary system is the ability to reach relatively