IN THE CAMPS: Guantánamo ends daily hunger-strike reports

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http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/12/03/3795285/guantanamo-ends-daily-hunger-strike.html

IN THE CAMPS: Guantánamo ends daily hunger-strike reports
By CAROL ROSENBERG
Posted on Tuesday, 12.03.13

The Guantánamo prison, whose motto is "safe, humane, legal, transparent detention," announced Tuesday that it will no longer disclose daily hunger-strike figures — abandoning a practice that allowed the public to see the rise and fall of the captives’ nearly year-long protest.

Under the new policy, the U.S. military will "no longer publicly issue the number of detainees who choose not to eat as a matter of protest," said Navy Cmdr. John Filostrat, the chief of the prison camps’ 20-member public-relations team.

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"JTF-Guantánamo allows detainees to peacefully protest but will not further their protests by reporting the numbers to the public," the spokesman said. "The release of this information serves no operational purpose and detracts from the more important issues, which are the welfare of detainees and the safety and security of our troops."

He refused to elaborate on how the daily report interfered with troop security and detainee welfare and whether "operational purpose" was now a calculus in the "transparency" portion of the prison motto.



unhappycamper comment: 166 detainees cost $454 million dollars oer year - $2.7 million dollars per year per detainee.

Have we already spent $5+ billion dollars on Gitmo over the last 12 years? Perhaps it is time we rethink this gulag.

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1. Dick & Bush

Ought to be there. Swear to the Goddess.