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."

Comments

Re:Prosecute them.

[bearclaw]

If it is classified information, they (the leaker) should be prosecuted.

Common Sense.....

[IHC Navistar]

I'm not one to let the Government get away with doing stupid things, but releasing a site for the global release of sensitive information is equally as stupid.

Sometimes, people don't know what the government is doing, and it is best kept that way.

This site, although well-intentioned, is practicing the very stupidity and wrongdoing that it is claiming to be against and help prevent.

Now, people have a way of leaking and releasing VERY SENSITIVE information on a global scale ANONYMOUSLY. So, if some 'mole' starts leaking information about national security issues on this site, the government can only sit back and wait to see what his/her next post will be about.

It's amazing how these morons are perfectly content with granting anonymity to people who release information that puts *EVERYBODY* at harm.

This site does nothing more that tell us stuff that any Joe can find out, except they are willing to grant anonymity to people who are actually leaking information that can put countries at greater risk by allowing their sensitive information to be posted globally without risk or consequense to the mole.

I hope someone manipulates this site just to show how badly it can be abused.