Eleven Simple Rules for Reporting on Gitmo
Posted on | March 31, 2007
Karen J. Greenberg is the Executive Director of the Center on Law and Security at the NYU School of Law. She recently took a tour of the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and has attempted to document the unwritten rules which the prison’s minders apply to press coverage:
6. After years of isolation, the detainees still possess valuable information — especially today. When asked what kind of useful information the detainees could possibly have for interrogators, many already locked away in Gitmo for over five years, the [military liaison's] answer was: “I believe that we are, in fact, getting good and useful and interesting intelligence — even after five years”…
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