WikiLeaks publishes US military 'Detainee Policies'
WikiLeaks starts releasing the set of over 100 "classified or otherwise restricted files" today, documents that apparently detail the US military's policies for dealing with detainees in facilities such as Guantanamo Bay.
Among the first to be released is the foundation document for Guantanamo Bay ("Camp Delta. The release of the 'Detainee Policies' marks three years of Camp Delta (Guantanamo Bay) SOP manuals released by WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks has now released the main Guantanamo Bay operating manuals for 2002, 2003 and 2004. The previously unpublished 2002 manual went on to shape successive years in the Guantanamo Bay prison complex and other U.S. military prisons around the world, such as Abu Ghraib. "This document is of significant historical importance. Guantanamo Bay has become the symbol for systematised human rights abuse in the West with good reason," said WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. "But how is it that WikiLeaks has now published three years of Guantanamo Bay operating procedures, but the rest of the world's press combined has published none?"
In relation to Iraq, the release includes Operation Orders (OPORD) regarding policies for screening and interrogating detainees.
Some of these documents “can only be described as ’policies of unaccountability,’” the WikiLeaks press release said. That allegedly includes a 2005 guide on prisoner paperwork that make detainees effectively disappear from the official US record, and a 2008 manual that minimizes recordkeeping on prisoner interrogations.
In order to gain a better understanding of the evolution of the Pentagon's post-9/11 attitude towards detainees, WikiLeaks called on NGOs, activists and the general public to thoroughly read the documents.
Voice of Russia
Source http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_10_25/WikiLeaks-publishes-US-military-Detainee-Policies/
Among the first to be released is the foundation document for Guantanamo Bay ("Camp Delta. The release of the 'Detainee Policies' marks three years of Camp Delta (Guantanamo Bay) SOP manuals released by WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks has now released the main Guantanamo Bay operating manuals for 2002, 2003 and 2004. The previously unpublished 2002 manual went on to shape successive years in the Guantanamo Bay prison complex and other U.S. military prisons around the world, such as Abu Ghraib. "This document is of significant historical importance. Guantanamo Bay has become the symbol for systematised human rights abuse in the West with good reason," said WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. "But how is it that WikiLeaks has now published three years of Guantanamo Bay operating procedures, but the rest of the world's press combined has published none?"
In relation to Iraq, the release includes Operation Orders (OPORD) regarding policies for screening and interrogating detainees.
Some of these documents “can only be described as ’policies of unaccountability,’” the WikiLeaks press release said. That allegedly includes a 2005 guide on prisoner paperwork that make detainees effectively disappear from the official US record, and a 2008 manual that minimizes recordkeeping on prisoner interrogations.
In order to gain a better understanding of the evolution of the Pentagon's post-9/11 attitude towards detainees, WikiLeaks called on NGOs, activists and the general public to thoroughly read the documents.
Voice of Russia
Source http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_10_25/WikiLeaks-publishes-US-military-Detainee-Policies/
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