Diffing Guantanamo Bay SOP Manuals

James Hardine writes "The Washington Post is reporting that Wikileaks has released another manual for Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay together with the US military's rendition operations manual. This release follows from the Wikileaks release of the 2003 SOP Manual as discussed on Slashdot last month. Wikileaks compares the two manuals (2003, 2004) and reveals damning changes in official US detainee policy in exquisite detail. Who knew that diff could be such a powerful political weapon?"

Comments

Re:We're all boiling frogs

[91degrees]

These are not US citizens; therefore, the Bill of Rights + Constitution do not apply.

Yes it does. The Bill of Rights applies to the government of the US. Any mention of people is "The People". Not "citizens of the US".

These are not uniformed soldiers of a sovereign state; therefore, Geneva Conventions do not apply.

Read the Geneva convention. Find out who the rules actually apply to. It's not limitted to uniformed soldiers of a sovereign state.

And you're assuming that these people have actually done anything wrong in the first place. Sicne we're not allowed to see any evdence (and neither are they) we're taking this as on faith.

Re:We're all boiling frogs

[megaditto]

First they came for the terrorists, but I said nothing because I was not a terrorist.
Then they came for the child rapists, and I still said nothing because I am not a child rapist.
Finally, they came for me, but the child rapists and the terrorists could no longer protect my freedom?

Do you really think that's how it works?

Re:Damning changes?

[DaveAtFraud]

Hopefully the liberals will continue to not figure out that whinny, over-the-top hyperbole in situations like this only gives everyone else a good belly laugh. In the past "irregular combatants" were not considered any different than spies and were executed. Sounds like we just keep them in "Club Gitmo" until we find out what they know and find a place that will accept them. Of course that's not good enough for those who also blame this country for being attacked.

Cheers,
Dave

Re:Um, NO.

[Daniel Dvorkin]

One after another, "Maybe it's Blackwater", "Maybe the prisoners are guards", "Maybe it's aliens". It makes present and former military personnel sick.

You know what makes me sick? People who swore an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States of America, and then wink at violations of the basic concepts of freedom which that document embodies. I swore the same oath you did, jarhead, and I take it seriously. Clearly you don't.