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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. 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

  4. 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.