“The Forever Prisoner”: Alex Gibney on How Patient Zero of CIA’s Torture Program Still Held at Gitmo

In an extended interview, filmmaker Alex Gibney discusses his new film, “The Forever Prisoner,” which tells the story of Guantánamo prisoner Abu Zubaydah.

In an extended interview with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, he discusses his new film, The Forever Prisoner, which tells the story of Guantánamo prisoner Abu Zubaydah, the first so-called high-value prisoner subjected to the CIA’s torture program who has been indefinitely imprisoned since 2006 without charge.


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