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In today's episode of the show.
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Can find that at our website, thisamericanlife.org from WBEZ Chicago, it's this American Life.
I'm Ira Glass.
If you heard our show last week, you know that we're doing something unusual for these two weeks.
We're featuring stories about Guantanamo made by our colleagues at Cereal.
And the one this week is really the one that killed me when I first heard it.
It's about some of the very last people still at Guantanamo.
Five men who were accused of plotting the 911 attacks.
Stories about their trial, and as Sarah Koenig points out, of everything that's happened at Guantanamo, the trial of these five men is the one place that you would think we could get to some kind of justice.
And then in this story, step by step and piece by piece, Sarah lays out why that seems so unlikely to happen.
The fact that these men were tortured in CIA black sites for years messes up their cases in all kinds of ways.
But that is just one of the problems in the cases.
And there's this one section of the story that I think is especially eye opening, and that is the section where Sarah explains what's probably the best possible outcome we could hope for in these cases and why, when that hits the news someday, if it ever happens, it's sure to be deeply misunderstood by lots of people, maybe by most people.
And so with that, I turn things over to serial host Sarah Koenig.
Every couple of weeks, at the Bland hour of 5pm on a Tuesday, a group of people you've never heard of clicks into a zoom meeting.
They're all family members of people who died on September 11th.
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