What is the military base hiding? There should not be any prisoner treatment the USA should have to hide.
Why aren't the defense attorneys standing up for their clients? The court is the only place these men can verbalize their complaints that have a somewhat neutral interest in those facts. What is affecting their behavior that would impact the hearings? I would think the judge would want to hear it.
The truth about the detainees treatment can only be a good way for Guantanamo to vent the truth. If the commander disagrees with the prisoner's edition of his treatment, the commander could easily refute it. I don't see that any of this should be a secret.
The USA has been through all this mess. There were changes made to the methods of treatment of detainees or prisoners. We have to go through it again?
June 2, 2016
By the AP
Guantanamo Bay Navel Base, Cuba — A Somali prisoner (click here) at Guantanamo Bay told a military judge Thursday that he has experienced what he believes are intentional noises and vibrations inside the high-security section of the prison known as Camp 7, echoing a defendant in the Sept. 11 war crimes case who has alleged he is the victim of deliberate attempts at sleep deprivation.
Hassan Guleed, an alleged member of East Africa al-Qaeda making his first appearance in a U.S. court since his 2004 capture, portrayed sounds and vibrations as well as chemical odors in testimony at the U.S. base in Cuba as "a kind or pressure" intended to make detainees cooperate with authorities. He contrasted it with other forms of abusive treatment that he and others experienced while held by the CIA in overseas prisons before being taken to Guantanamo.
"We have mental torture in the Camp 7. In the black site there was physical..." Guleed started to say when prosecutors and the judge cut him off to keep him from discussing details about his confinement that are classified as secret....
Why aren't the defense attorneys standing up for their clients? The court is the only place these men can verbalize their complaints that have a somewhat neutral interest in those facts. What is affecting their behavior that would impact the hearings? I would think the judge would want to hear it.
The truth about the detainees treatment can only be a good way for Guantanamo to vent the truth. If the commander disagrees with the prisoner's edition of his treatment, the commander could easily refute it. I don't see that any of this should be a secret.
The USA has been through all this mess. There were changes made to the methods of treatment of detainees or prisoners. We have to go through it again?
June 2, 2016
By the AP
Guantanamo Bay Navel Base, Cuba — A Somali prisoner (click here) at Guantanamo Bay told a military judge Thursday that he has experienced what he believes are intentional noises and vibrations inside the high-security section of the prison known as Camp 7, echoing a defendant in the Sept. 11 war crimes case who has alleged he is the victim of deliberate attempts at sleep deprivation.
Hassan Guleed, an alleged member of East Africa al-Qaeda making his first appearance in a U.S. court since his 2004 capture, portrayed sounds and vibrations as well as chemical odors in testimony at the U.S. base in Cuba as "a kind or pressure" intended to make detainees cooperate with authorities. He contrasted it with other forms of abusive treatment that he and others experienced while held by the CIA in overseas prisons before being taken to Guantanamo.
"We have mental torture in the Camp 7. In the black site there was physical..." Guleed started to say when prosecutors and the judge cut him off to keep him from discussing details about his confinement that are classified as secret....
