Inside Guantanamo
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This Sunday, April 5 at 9 p.m. EST, the National Geographic Channel is premiering a new documentary as part of their award winning Explorer series entitled “Inside Guantanamo.” Charles “Cully” Stimson, Senior Legal Fellow in the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation was instrumental in granting National Geographic the access they needed to produce this one-of-a-kind documentary when he was Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary for Detainee Affairs prior to joining Heritage.
He told The Foundry how this project came about:
On my first day heading the Defense Department’s detainee affairs policy shop in 2006, I traveled to Guantanamo Bay to review the entire detention operation. It was the first of many trips to the Navy base. It was clear from that first trip that the military operated the camps in a safe and humane manner and the detainees were exceptionally well cared for. I determined that we were not only in compliance with Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, but that the care and treatment of detainees far exceeded what Geneva requires.