Wikileaks Releases Sensitive Guantanamo Manual

James Hardine writes "Wired is reporting that a never-before-seen military manual detailing the day-to-day operations of the U.S. military's Guantánamo Bay detention facility has been leaked to the web, via the whistle-blowing site Wikileaks.org, affording a rare inside glimpse into the institution where the United States has imprisoned hundreds of suspected terrorists since 2002. The 238-page document, "Camp Delta Standard Operating Procedures," is dated March 28, 2003. The disclosure highlights the internet's usefulness to whistle-blowers in anonymously propagating documents the government and others would rather conceal. The Pentagon has been resisting — since October 2003 — a Freedom of Information Act request from the American Civil Liberties Union seeking the very same document. Anonymous open-government activists created Wikileaks in January, hoping to turn it into a clearinghouse for such disclosures. The site uses a Wikipedia-like system to enlist the public in authenticating and analyzing the documents it publishes. The Camp Delta document includes schematics of the camp, detailed checklists of what "comfort items" such as extra toilet paper can be given to detainees as rewards, six pages of instructions on how to process new detainees, instructions on how to psychologically manipulate prisoners, and rules for dealing with hunger strikes."

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Re:Prosecute them.

[spleen_blender]

diaf || say something productive

I'm not the one who puts the jerk into kneejerk... you are.

Re:Prosecute them.

[dfenstrate]

So more than 650 THOUSAND (in the first three years of occupation) iraqi civilian deaths are not filling them?

The population of Iraq is about 26 million people. You claim 2.5% of the population has died due to the US invasion. (1 out of 40 people)

Don't suppose you have an impeachable source for that fanatastic claim, do you? Or maybe just some shoddy sampling surveys extrapolated to the entire country in the most non-conservative way possible, with the aim of politically embarassing the united states?

What's your margin of error on that? 99%?

Re:Prosecute them.

[Shakrai]

Not if what they're saying is true.

Yes, because the thousands of POWs that claimed to be tortured by the North Vietnamese were all lying. Jane Fonda was brave enough to stand up to them and tell the truth.

I'll get modded down again, but I'll say it again: She's a fucking treasonous cunt that deserves nothing but contempt and scorn.