The National Geographic produced a documentary entitled ''Inside Guantanamo'', first broadcast in early April 2009. It details the practices inside Guantanamo Bay military prison. The Director, Jon Else, wrote:

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, reporting for ''

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'', wrote: The film interviewed some key players who played a role in the controversial camp.

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called the camps: "an integral part of the war on terror."

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, the Navy lawyer assigned to defend

Salim Ahmed Hamdan Salim Ahmed Hamdan () (born February 25, 1968) is a Yemeni man, captured during the invasion of Afghanistan, declared by the United States government to be an illegal enemy combatant and held as a detainee at Guantanamo Bay from 2002 to November ...

, said: "Guantanamo Bay was the legal equivalent of outer space -- a place with no law."

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