Dan Rather Does Guantánamo (NTY Observer)

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By Felix Gillette
June 2, 2009 | 6:43 p.m

... Lakhdar Boumediene — a native of Algeria and former resident of Bosnia .. was recently released after spending nearly seven and a half years as a detainee at Guantánamo.

Along the way, Mr. Boumediene had proclaimed his innocence; gone on a prolonged hunger strike; served as the lead petitioner in the 2008 Supreme Court case that helped to establish legal rights for Gitmo prisoners; and ultimately won a ruling from a federal judge that there was “no legal basis” for holding him.

In mid-May, after Mr. Boumediene’s release to France, his lawyer, Stephen Oleskey, granted the first on-camera interview to Dan Rather Reports ... Adam Teicholz .. spent two hours interviewing the former detainee. Throughout the interview, according to Mr. Rather, Mr. Boumediene alleged various humiliations at Guantánamo during the Bush administration. The interview, said Mr. Rather, was packed with details about Mr. Boumediene’s alleged torture — from intravenous needles being jammed into his arms to stories of soldiers snapping photos of the inmate’s painful transport to the detention center ...

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