So much of what defines us as a nation in the last decade is crystallized at Guantanamo. If National Geographic Channel had not sent us down there to do this film, there would be no definitive documentary. I think that that history has to somehow be preserved and I hope that this film can have a hand in doing that.
Everything in the program, of course, has to be taken with a grain of salt: the soldiers all do and say the right things; the former prisoners (the ubiquitous Moazzam Begg is one) are nonthreatening as can be; and, under the restrictions imposed on the film crew by the military, the current prisoners are not heard from in direct interviews or even seen (thanks to blurring).
The film interviewed some key players who played a role in the controversial camp.[4]ColonelBruce Vargo called the camps: "an integral part of the war on terror."
Lieutenant CommanderCharles Swift, the Navy lawyer assigned to defend Salim Ahmed Hamdan, said:
"Guantanamo Bay was the legal equivalent of outer space -- a place with no law."
