ABC News gets an extremely rare (maybe unprecedented) look at the inside of Guantanamo Bay. Watch it.

  • The head interrogator denies all use of torture, and even refers to his interrogations as “custodial interviews.”
  • The room pictured to the right–which has a plush lazy chair–is supposedly one of the interrogation rooms.
  • This sugar-coated look at Gitmo feels sort of like the tours of North Korea that Westerners sometimes get.
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