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Wikileaks Releases Sensitive Guantanamo Manual

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the sorry-about-this-world dept.

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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  1. Prosecute them. by bogaboga · · Score: 5, Funny

    The folks at wikileaks.org http://wikileaks.org/ should be prosecuted for being party to endangering National Security.

    1. Re:Prosecute them. by WormholeFiend · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well at least this time around, soldiers will have documented proof of the orders they are told to follow.

    2. Re:Prosecute them. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
      and we have nothing to show for it

      But there have been no more terrorist attacks on the US during that time. I know it's hard to prove that it's because we went to war, but it's just as hard to prove that it is not. The economy is better, the military is stronger and the world respects our word (all of this in contrast to the Clinton administration).

      I know all this truth offends your liberal bias, but it's still truth even if you don't like it.

    3. Re:Prosecute them. by Ulven · · Score: 3, Funny

      Otherwise you get invaded?

  2. RE: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    If my wikileaks I'll be seeing a doctor, thank you very much.

  3. Are you new here? by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 2, Funny

    Infidel! The Slashdot Manifesto states quite clearly that the USA is the most evil entity ever to appear in the history of the Universe. We're all living in a police state. In fact, the Bushstaoppo police will be breaking down my door just for posting this. Any minute now. Mmmmmmyep. Riiiiiiiiiight.... now. No, now. Hmmm. Must be caught in traffic.

    Anyway, Slashdot is the rag tag rebel fleet fighting the Evil Empire so geeks can feel like they have meaning in their lives instead of frittering it away on obscure Linux distros, spending more hours configuring MythTV than actually watching TV and comic books.

    I shall now huff and puff at you for several minutes for being so ideologically impure!

    1. Re:Are you new here? by doktr+thunder · · Score: 2, Funny

      wow hugely exaggerating everything most slashdotters believe to make it seem outlandish is FUNNY!!

      what if we reverse it?.......

      SAINT! The Non-Slashdotter Consititution of Freedom clearly states that the USA(USA! USA!) is the greatest and most FREE(as in freedom) entity/society ever to appear in the History of the UNIVERSE. We're all living in sort of democratic PARADISE. In fact, the GEORGE BUSH was appointed by Jesus Himself to benevolently (watch over our conversations and guard the movie-industry) for the greater good. He'll destroy those terrorists any minute now.... Riiigght... NOW. no NOW. Hmmmm....
      Must be waiting before the next election (4 MORE YEARS!)

      Anyway, Slashdot is a bunch of commie, rebel scum, trying to keep Nazis, terrorists, and child-molestors safe. The American way is to run the best OS eva, Microsoft Windows(made by not only a shrewd businessman, but programming genius! hello!). It makes everything SO EASY, especially windows media-center where I can watch my favorite shows ALL THE TIME

      Ooo american idol is on....

  4. Re:Yet Another Left Wing Loony Site by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 3, Funny

    Really, how many "vast" conspiracies were ever really proven?

    Four words:
    Milli. Vanilli. Lip. Synching.

    So there! :-P

  5. Extra TP as an award by antifoidulus · · Score: 2, Funny

    oh no, are they holding Beavis at Gitmo?!

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    Monstar L
    1. Re:Extra TP as an award by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 2, Funny

      ...are they holding Beavis at Gitmo?!

      No, they apparently put him in charge.

  6. Re:That Doesn't Matter by Skrapion · · Score: 5, Funny

    We can only hope that we never loose a war I bet I'm not the only grammar nerd thinking "The US looses wars like they're arrows."
    --
    The details are trivial and useless; The reasons, as always, purely human ones.
  7. Re:God fucking learn something about Abu Ghraib. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Illegal combatants have no rights. And yes, that is spelled out in the Geneva Convention. Look it up.