From GITMO to the Killing Machine

How the enemy of the atrocious became the unthinkable Twenty years ago, on January 11, 2002, the prison at Guantánamo Bay (GITMO) admitted its first round of post-9/11 terrorist suspects. Two recent films, The Mauritanian (2021) and The Forever Prisoner (2021), chart parts of the ugly history of the facility, during which acts of torture … Continue reading From GITMO to the Killing Machine →