Guantánamo Bay Manual Leaked

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We haven't heard a lot about Gitmo lately, have we? This troublesome black eye to United States human rights credibility has a tendency to pop up now and then, and this one's a doozy. We may not ever find out the true scope of this administrations many evil deeds, but it's heartening that sometimes these things leak out.

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Sensitive Guantánamo Bay Manual Leaked Through Wiki Site

. . ."What strikes me is the level of detail for handling all kind of situations, from admission to barbers and burials," says Jamil Dakwar, advocacy director of the ACLU's Human Rights program. Dakwar was in Guantánamo last week for a military-commission hearing. [snip]

The manual shows how the military coded each prisoner according to the level of access the Red Cross would have. The four levels are:
• No Access
• Visual Access -- ICRC can only look at a prisoner's physical condition.
• Restricted Access -- ICRC representatives can only ask short questions about the prisoner's health.
• Unrestricted Access

The No Access level troubles Dakwar. . .

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