In 2011, human rights groups and Deepnudes journalists found that some of these prisoners had been taken to other locations, including in Europe, and interrogated under torture in the U.S. Scott Z Burns’ legal drama is based on the true story of Dan Jones, played by Adam Driver, the lead investigator on the Senate Intelligence Committee’s torture report, which documented the CIA’s rendition, detention, and interrogation program from 2002 to 2008. Jones is portrayed as the ‘white knight’ exposing the American public to the truth about torture practices, including waterboarding, that were used against accused al-Qaeda members like Abu Zubaydah (Zuhdi Boueri). General Counsel Mora and Navy Judge Advocate General Michael Lohr believed the detainee treatment to be unlawful and campaigned among other top lawyers and officials in the Defense Department to investigate, and to provide clear standards prohibiting coercive interrogation tactics. Nonetheless, Mora has maintained that detainee treatment has been consistent with the law since 15 January 2003 suspension of previously approved interrogation tactics. In response, on 15 January 2003, Donald Rumsfeld suspended the approved interrogation tactics at Guantánamo until a new set of guidelines could be produced by a working group headed by General Counsel of the Air Force Mary Walker.

General Counsel Mora led a faction of the Working Group in arguing against these standards, and argued the issues with Yoo in person. Unable to get satisfaction from the Army commanders running the detainee camp, they took their concerns to David Brant, director of the NCIS, who alerted Navy General Counsel Alberto J. Mora. The working group’s final report, was signed and delivered to Guantánamo without the knowledge of Mora and the others who had opposed its content. One of the most common forms of disruption that they cause are working to get the movement to do something stupid or illegal that can then be used to discredit the movement or arrest movement members or both. This is about a man that was prosecuted for terrorism: “But he was working towards his GED, the test that would certify that he had high school-level academic skills. Unlike the predominately white academic audiences in the North Eastern United States where I typically present my work, nearly all of the attendees not only knew of this legend but had grown up hearing stories about the wailing woman who killed her own children. Many think this: however abusive the United States may be, it doesn’t rival its enemies.

By May 2011, 600 detainees had been released. In July 2005, 242 detainees were moved out of Guantanamo, including 173 who were released without charge. As of June 2013, 46 detainees (in addition to two who were deceased) were designated to be detained indefinitely, because the government said the prisoners were too dangerous to transfer and there was insufficient admissible evidence to try them. After the release of Saifullah Paracha in October 2022, 35 prisoners remained, 20 of which had been cleared for release, pending identification of a suitable country. “There will be judges who are going to issue a writ of habeas corpus, and you either got to take them to trial or you got to release them at that time,” DeSantis said. On 19 February 2002, Guantanamo detainees petitioned in federal court for a writ of habeas corpus to review the legality of their detention. Justice John Paul Stevens, writing for a five-justice majority, held that the detainees had a statutory right to petition federal courts for habeas review. However, Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel Jay Bybee, relying on the unitary executive theory developed by Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo, advised the President in a series of memos that he could hold enemy combatants abroad, indefinitely, without congressional oversight, and free from judicial review.

Patients explain why they chose a hip resurfacing and talk about their surgeries, recoveries and return to a normal, active and pain free life. One puts up her hand to ask why more hospitals were not mentioned in the film. One example is Adel Noori, a Chinese Uyghur and dissident who had been sold to the US by Pakistani bounty hunters. Aziz, the Mauritanian inmate who was returned home in 2015 after 13 years without charge, said he had become familiar with DeSantis’s face in the preceding few months, as a low-level JAG to whom detainees could bring their complaints. According to Chaplain Kent Svendsen who served as chaplain for the detention centers from 2004 to 2005 there were no minor detainees at the site upon starting his assignment in early 2004. He said: “I was given a tour of the camp and it was explained to me that minors were segregated from the general public and processed to be returned to their families. The camp had long been emptied and closed when I arrived at my duty station”.