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Gitmo Manual Surfaces

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Guantanamo Bay, Military, The War On Terrorism

This is interesting. Wired runs a story about a pdf manual of procedures (link downloads PDF file) the folks at Guantanamo Bay used when processing and dealing with detainees.

From Wired:

The 238-page document, “Camp Delta Standard Operating Procedures,” is dated March 28, 2003. It is unclassified, but designated “For Official Use Only.” It hit the web last Wednesday on Wikileaks.org.

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.

Note that it has been declassified, so something tells me there’s nothing about waterboarding in it…

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6 Responses to “Gitmo Manual Surfaces”

S.W. Anderson Says:
November 14th, 2007 at 4:29 pm
This looks like a good resource for shedding some light on what I sometimes refer to as The New Dark Age of Bush.

However, people should be mindful of the potential for doctored or completely phony material to be planted there. Realize also that the misleading material could come from either side of the political divide.

Unfortunately, purloined documents don’t come with certificates of authenticity and 90-day money-back guarantees.
Jimmy the Dhimmi Says:
November 14th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
The New Dark Age where terrorists are not automatically given extra toilet paper in prison.
Dos Says:
November 15th, 2007 at 8:29 am
Yes, the New Dark Age were we ensure the terrorists have prayer rugs.

I wonder if I was thrown in jail in Tehran if they would give me a Rosary.
mike mcEachran Says:
November 15th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Yes, Dos, and if the Iranians jump off a bridge, will you? … Please. (I’m kidding…please don’t go off on a “Blame America first” rant.)

That is just whacked-out rationalization, dude. I’m sorry you hold our contstitution in such low regard, and are willing to allow our government set policy to lowest common denominator. Really, it’s freakin crazy.
Dos Says:
November 15th, 2007 at 10:58 pm
mike, what’s that weird bubbling sound I hear the background….
mike mcEachran Says:
November 19th, 2007 at 10:24 am
good one, Dos. You got me…

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