Prison Scrutiny May Spread to Guantanamo

[Spazito]

WASHINGTON - The storm of controversy over abuse at U.S.-run prisons in Iraq (news - web sites) and Afghanistan (news - web sites) largely has escaped the detention facility at Guantanamo, Cuba, where terrorist suspects are held. That soon may change.

A senior Navy admiral who briefly visited Guantanamo Bay in early May at Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's request has recommended a more in-depth look at the prisoners' treatment. He said conditions there are good now but may have been different earlier.

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The Pentagon itself is reconstructing events from the early months of detention and interrogations at Guantanamo, when the focus was on extracting as much information as possible — as quickly as possible — from prisoners thought to have knowledge of planned terrorist attacks.

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Pentagon officials assert that prisoners at Guantanamo have been treated humanely from the start, but they acknowledge that some pieces of the historical record remain missing or fuzzy.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&e=11&u=/ap/prisoner_abuse_guantanamo

(Geez, this just leaps out at me: "but they acknowledge that some pieces of the historical record remain missing or fuzzy.")

[FleshCartoon]

1. And there is no telling...

...what will come out about this little torture chamber.

There shouldn't even be a Guantanamo prison, much less have it holding prisoners without access to lawyers.

:mad:

[gratuitous]

2. Oh, a fuzzy historical record

Sounds so much nicer and more humane than torture chamber, doesn't it? And what's a little abuse being captives and their jailers? Certainly nothing that anyone should answer for at The Hague or anything, is it?

Get these scumbags out of my government!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. I've always thought

that the persecution of Chaplain Yee ( the muslim chaplain who was imprisoned in solitary confinement - spying charges later dropped - then accused of adultery, mainly to mess up his family life, because that charge was dropped as well)was based on the fact he was getting ready to blow the lid on what was happening.

[Coventina]

4. Good

I hope GB comes under "X-Ray" scrutiny.

Human rights are not "quaint".