The National Geographic produced a documentary entitled Inside Guantanamo, first broadcast in early April 2009.

The Director, Jon Else, wrote:

Neil Genzlinger

Neil Genzlinger

Neil Genzlinger is an American playwright, editor, book reviewer, and theatre and television critic. He frequently writes for The New York Times, where he is a copy editor....

, reporting for New York Times, wrote:
The film interviewed some key players who played a role in the controversial camp.
Colonel

Colonel

Colonel , abbreviated Col or COL, is a military rank of a senior commissioned officer. It or a corresponding rank exists in most armies and in many air forces; the naval equivalent rank is generally "Captain". It is also used in some police forces and other paramilitary rank structures...

 Bruce Vargo

Bruce Vargo

Colonel Bruce Vargo is a Military Police officer in the United States Army.He was appointed the commander of Joint Task Force Guantanamo's Joint Detention Group -- its guard force....

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

Lieutenant Commander

Lieutenant Commander is a commissioned officer rank in many navies. The rank is superior to a lieutenant and subordinate to a commander...

 Charles Swift

Charles Swift

Charles D. Swift is a former Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy, Judge Advocate General's Corps and Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law. During the course of his Navy career, he was assigned to the Department of Defense Office of Military Commissions. He is...

, the Navy lawyer assigned to defend Salim Ahmed Hamdan

Salim Ahmed Hamdan

Salim Ahmed Hamdan is a Yemeni man, captured during the invasion of Afghanistan, and imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay. He admits to being Osama bin Laden's personal driver claiming he needed the $200 monthly salary that came with the job....

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