Where Are They Now: Guantanamo's First Detainees

• 1:00:25Tim introduces 'Where Are They Now' segment, now covering Guantanamo's first detainees
• 1:01:13Tim jokes that one detainee was accidentally released and is now a Taliban leader plotting against the country
• 1:01:39He asks if the article has any success stories—whether any tortured detainee now runs a weed startup or launched an energy drink
• 1:02:22David Hicks, an Australian convert to Islam detained at Guantanamo, is now doing landscape gardening with ongoing health issues from his treatment
• 1:02:43Tim argues that torture violates George Washington's principles and that Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld should be in prison for it
• 1:03:35He pivots to criticizing Kansas City barbecue and praises Austin as the barbecue capital
• 1:04:03Tim says torture victims should be on Saturday Night Live doing sketches about America's torture program instead of SNL ignoring the topic
• 1:04:39He examines the ticking time bomb justification for torture, noting that intelligence about bin Laden and planes was available before 9/11
• 1:05:19Tim expands the segment concept to ask 'Where are they now' about Pakistani children killed in U.S. drone strikes and Yemeni civilians starved by Saudi Arabia funding
• 1:06:28A documentary showed a Guantanamo guard converted to Islam and became friends with a detainee—evidence the torture program wasn't working
• 1:07:11Some detainees released to Qatar now live in housing under watch, able to move freely in Doha but needing approval to travel abroad
• 1:07:52One Yemeni prisoner resettled in Oman found factory work, married, and now has two children
• 1:08:24Tim argues that torturing people and releasing them back to their countries gives them reason to attack America again
• 1:08:57Abded al-Malik, a Yemeni detainee released to Montenegro, tried selling artwork and NFTs he made at Guantanamo but his dream of being a tour guide collapsed when the economy tanked
• 1:09:48Four of the first twenty detainees released by the Bush administration could not be found—either dead, killed by U.S. forces, or engaged in activities causing problems

tortureGeorge W. BushGuantanamo BayDick CheneyDonald RumsfeldAbded Al Malik24David HicksOsama bin LadenKhalid Sheikh MohammedGeorge Washington