Guantanamo Bay is a tricky place for a reporter. It's a high-stakes beat that touches on thorny legal and political issues, as well as fundamental questions about human rights. But the day-to-day process of reporting on Guantanamo can be incredibly, if not infuriatingly, slow. From a public perspective, Guantanamo rises and falls in the national conversation; sometimes it's front-page news, and sometimes it disappears from the pages of the papers for years. So how do journalists cover it?
This week, guest host Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Jess Bravin, the Supreme Court reporter for The Wall Street Journal who covered Guantanamo for decades, about how to tackle a place that deals in incremental change. She also sits down with Michel Paradis, a senior attorney for the Department of Defense, Military Commissions Defense Organization, to talk about why the Gitmo's legal system makes journalists' jobs harder.
This is a segment from our October 1st, 2021 program, Out of Sight.