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Serial returns with a history of Guantánamo told by people who lived through key moments in Guantánamo’s evolution, who know things the rest of us don’t about what it’s like to be caught inside an improvised justice system.
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S04 - Ep. 1: Poor Baby Raul
Maybe you have an idea in your head about what it was like to work at Guantánamo, one of the most notorious prisons in the world. Think again.
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S04 - Ep. 2: The Special Project
In 2002, an elite interrogation team secretly staged Guantánamo’s most elaborate intel operation — to try to get a single detainee to talk.
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S04 - Ep. 3: Ahmad the Iguana Feeder
An Arabic-speaking airman is sent to Guantánamo to translate, and soon finds himself at the center of a major scandal. Part 1: Suspicion swallows evidence.
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S04 - Ep. 4: The Honeymooners
The case against a young airman gets even weirder when the government pulls in two fresh investigators. Part 2: A bride, an FBI agent, and a polygraph machine.
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S04 - Ep. 5: The Big Chicken, Part 1
A new warden comes to Guantánamo and decides to make some changes. A prison’s a prison, he thinks. How hard could this be?
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S04 - Ep. 6: Part 2, Asymmetry
After the worst happens at Guantánamo, the warden tries to explain it to the outside world – and to himself.
Customer Reviews
Nuanced and balanced reporting
All four seasons of Serial are done so incredibly well and reported beautifully, but the most recent season on Guantanamo truly highlights the fundamental flaws within the United States’ investigation, prosecution, and treatment of people suspected of terrorism. Particularly poignant was the episode that focused on the families of people who died in 9/11 and their prospective on the United States’ abject failure to appropriately and adequately prosecute the known masterminds of 9/11. If you’re on the fence, give it a chance—don’t rely on the one star reviews of people who clearly did not listen to the podcast and are instead blindly enraged at any potential empathy afforded to human beings who, according to our own nation’s base principles, should be presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Nothing new
I started listening with the 1st season, which was very well done. But since then, probably following other media outlets for audience, but, drop the agenda! Just tell the story.
Great podcast until war crimes discussion
I used to love this podcast but now it’s boring. I don’t want to hear about lousy military men because people still defend them and thank them for their service