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.

[meringuoid]

Assuming that somebody reading Slashdot is familiar with a well known Slashdot pun does not imply a lack of communication skills on my part.

People often mention 'federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison' on Slashdot. People very rarely link to the IMDB quotes page for 'Office Space' while doing so. So it's quite possible to recognise it as a piece of /. culture while not realising that it's a totally offtopic reference to a movie that has nothing whatever to do with leaked military documents.

It was years before I happened to watch that movie and found out where the line came from; up to that point, I'd thought it just a nasty little meme in extremely poor taste, circulated by juvenile geeks who liked to gloat over the idea of someone else getting forcibly sodomised in prison. Certainly I can imagine how seeing frequent nasty little references to prison rape throughout Slashdot would anger anyone with a sense of justice and a less than encyclopaedic knowledge of geek movie culture.