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:The Democratic System Certainly Has Its Flaws,

[delt0r]

As they say, "If you are doing nothing wrong, then you have nothing to hide." If that can apply to me then it can apply to the government.

Re:Prosecute them.

[Shakrai]

I was going to write a detailed reply to your tirade, but the Anonymous Coward said it way better then I ever could have.

For the people who don't see AC posts: If you engage in a conversation and don't get the local culture's idioms then you're the one responsible. You should be embarrassed. I wouldn't go in to a group that I am not familiar with, misunderstand a joke that anybody in the group should get, point out they're horrible people for that joke, then have the joke explained to find out that it is not as bad as I thought it was and then continue to ridicule them