> The artists could bring their work to meetings with their lawyers, who would submit it along with their meeting notes to a "privilege team", which assesses everything leaving Guantanamo for classified material or national security issues.
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> Then in late 2017, under the Trump administration, it became clear that art was no longer being allowed out. Like lots of things in the world of Guantanamo, there was no official notification to the lawyers, no memo. Artwork was all of a sudden simply bounced back from the privilege team to the detainees.
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> Keeping his art in Guantanamo would be "the same as keeping me here", Qasim said.
> "The art I made is me," he said. "If they keep my art here, my soul will stay here."
Sometimes it really does seem that "the cruelty is the point".