Guantanamo Standard Operating Procedures - full leaked document
The full Guantanamo Standard Operating Procedures document, leaked to the net yesterday, is fast disappearing from sites like Wikileaks. I host the entire Guantanamo Standard Operating Procedures here in the hope that it remains publicly and permanently accessible. I will post an MS Word version as soon as I can. In addition to Googlepages, I'm hosting it on FileDen as well.
Ryan Singel from Wired writes about the leak of the Guantanamo SOP document here. On NPR today, Single pointed out that, due to the continued anonymity of the founders of Wikileaks, some speculate that the site may be operated by elements within U.S. intelligence (presumably in order to sidestep the traditional middlemen of the media and leak whatever they want directly to the public). Tension and turf wars between the CIA and DoD regarding detention and interrogation techniques since 9/11 are well documented.
The "Camp Delta Standard Operating Procedures" may be the closest we're going to get to an accurate account of how Gitmo prisoners are treated. It may also add some valuable information to our understanding of the history of interrogation techniques in the "war on terror." The government has not responded to requests for comment on the document, but neither has it disputed its authenticity. Please post comments, highlights, and analysis of the document in the Comments section, or email me.
UPDATE: The Pentagon has, in effect, now authenticated the SOP document in a brief statement. While asserting that "many SOP changes" related to Gitmo have taken place since 2003, none are specified.
Ryan Singel from Wired writes about the leak of the Guantanamo SOP document here. On NPR today, Single pointed out that, due to the continued anonymity of the founders of Wikileaks, some speculate that the site may be operated by elements within U.S. intelligence (presumably in order to sidestep the traditional middlemen of the media and leak whatever they want directly to the public). Tension and turf wars between the CIA and DoD regarding detention and interrogation techniques since 9/11 are well documented.
The "Camp Delta Standard Operating Procedures" may be the closest we're going to get to an accurate account of how Gitmo prisoners are treated. It may also add some valuable information to our understanding of the history of interrogation techniques in the "war on terror." The government has not responded to requests for comment on the document, but neither has it disputed its authenticity. Please post comments, highlights, and analysis of the document in the Comments section, or email me.
UPDATE: The Pentagon has, in effect, now authenticated the SOP document in a brief statement. While asserting that "many SOP changes" related to Gitmo have taken place since 2003, none are specified.
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