Guantanamo files may star in next WikiLeaks release ("He's got personal files of every prisoner")

[kpete]

Source: Reuters

Guantanamo files may star in next WikiLeaks release

2 hours 31 mins ago
Reuters Mark Hosenball


WikiLeaks' next assault on Washington may highlight U.S. government reports on suspected militants held at Guantanamo Bay, which some U.S. officials worry could show certain detainees were freed despite intelligence assessments they were still dangerous.

The leaks could be an embarrassment to President Barack Obama's administration, already angered over WikiLeaks document dumps of U.S. State Department cables, as it seeks to fulfil a 2-year-old pledge to close the prison and either release the foreign terrorism suspects or move them elsewhere.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, jailed in Britain this week, has told media contacts he has a large cache of U.S. government reports about inmates at the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, known as GITMO, the last of four major tranches of U.S. government documents which WikiLeaks had acquired and at some point would make public.

"He's got the personal files of every prisoner in GITMO," said one person who was in contact with Assange earlier this year.



Read more: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20101209/tpl-uk-wikileaks-guantanamo-81f3b62.html

[tekisui]

1. I can't wait!

[eleny]

2. ouch

[Jefferson23]

3. Incredible and they don't kid around when they say there is more to come. n/t

[Demeter]

4. Let Truth Roll Down Like a River

and wash away the filth that befouls our nation.

[glinda]

5. I think we should quit referring to "he" has files and go to "Wiki" has files.

[Pavulon]

6. handing it to the republicans..

"why did you release men who killed Americans". unintended consequences. by they way those RTN futures continue to increease in value after the 19 ICBM;s in Iran leak.

[PSPS]

10. HA! You're nothing if not predictable!

[davidthegnome]

21. Uhm, what?

Wow, just, wow dude. Could you put that into something that maybe makes a bit of sense? Thanks.

[Pavulon]

23. So when they dump the files on the gbay prisoners

and obama made the (correct) decision to release them. How do you think the response will be handled in the press.

I am sure no willy horton ads will pop up. think on that, wow dude..

[jwirr]

7. I would think a Gitmo release would be more about shrub than about

Obama - shrub put them there and authorized torture.

[PSPS]

11. It's Obama's torture camp now. He said he'd close it, but, like all his other "promises"...

[Pavulon]

24. Bingo. Thats the spin, thats what you will see

thanks to the new savior at wikileaks. I am sure they would love to be responsible for a rightward shift in the Executive.

[guruoo]

8. And here they are...

In one of these servers. Maybe.



Technology
The World's Most Secure Data Center
Andy Greenberg, 10.07.10, 12:00 PM EDT
Forbes Magazine dated October 25, 2010
The Swedish carrier Bahnhof offers its clientele bombproof bits.

If the whistleblower organization Wikileaks wanted to bolster its image as a league of invulnerable digital superheroes, it's found the right subterranean lair. Swedish broadband carrier Bahnhof confirms that some Wikileaks servers are now hosted in its Pionen data center, converted from an underground Cold War-era nuclear bunker in downtown Stockholm. The server farm, carved out of a 100-foot-tall granite hill, has a single entrance, protected by 20-inch-thick steel doors. Bahnhof Chairman Jon Karlung says the facility sends a message to clients: Your data are safe from all intrusions, physical or legal. "The resemblance to a James Bond setting is purely intentional."

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/1025/technology-wikileaks-stockholm-bahnhof-bombproof-bits.html

Bahnhof data center web site:
http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/11/14/the-worlds-most-super-designed-data-center-fit-for-a-james-bond-villain/

[defendandprotect]

9. May the fates be with them... especially on this torture info ....

How active our government is to try to stop free speech -- and to keep

their filthy secrets covered --

yet how inactive in any sense of providing justice --

140,000 prisoners were roped in -- or even at times SOLD to America --

How encouraging to see that many seem to be involved in trying to tell us what

really happened in GITMO!!

Thank you!!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

12. Maybe not

WikiLeaks' next assault on Washington may highlight U.S. government reports on suspected militants held at Guantanamo Bay, which some U.S. officials worry could show certain detainees were freed despite intelligence assessments they were still dangerous.

Maybe the leaks will show something worse: that most of the prisoners at Guantanamo were innocents brought in by bounty hunters or were poor shlubs who were told that they were defending their country from invaders.

[krabigirl]

13. :(

[14thColony]

16. Reminds me of two discussions with two friends of mine...

neither of whom knew the other. Both were intelligence analysts on 6mo assignments at GTMO at different times, and both told me almost exactly the same thing based on their experiences, which I shall paraphrase here as "Two-thirds of the people in there didn't have shit to do with anything. They were either in the wrong place at the wrong time or were sold out by people with a grudge over some local dispute."

[Vattel]

14. excellent work wikileaks!!!!

[Solly Mack]

15. K&R

[sabra]

17. About 1 in 4 released Guantanamo detainees confirmed or suspected of terrorism or insurgency, report

Source: McClatchy Newspapers

MIAMI — About one-fourth of all released Guantanamo detainees have been confirmed or suspected of engaging in terrorism or insurgency activity, the vast majority of them freed in the Bush years, according to a new U.S. intelligence report.

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper included the figure in a report filed with Congress on Tuesday that was required by the 2010 U.S. intelligence funding bill.

The 150 former Guantanamo detainees who turned to terrorism or may have done so include 83 men who are at large, 54 who are now in custody and 13 who have been confirmed dead.

In all, the U.S. has released some 600 captives from Guantanamo. Some have been repatriated to their home nations, others resettled in third countries and six were sent home after their deaths _ five of them apparent suicides.

The report said 81 men _ 13.5 per cent of those released _ were confirmed to have gone on to plan, fund, conduct or recruit for attacks or suicide bombings on U.S. coalition forces or civilians.

...

Two of the 66 captives released from Guantanamo by the Obama administration are confirmed recidivists, according to the report. Another three are suspected of turning to terrorism or insurgent activities.



Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/About+released+Guantanamo+detainees+confirmed+suspected+terrorism/3948522/story.html

[Arctic Dave]

18. "Suicides". LOL

And if you believe that one...

[Botany]

19. pick people up on false charges (in some cases), hold them in prison,

and torture them in many cases they will turn out kind of "salty."

One more benefit from W's, "war on terror." Thank you U.S. Supreme
Court for bush v Gore. You really did so much for all of us in that ruling.

[merh]

20. Payback is a bitch, ain't it

Call them prisoners of war, treat them as such under the Geneva conventions and hold them until the wars are over and you don't have to deal with them wanting to get back at you for torturing and abusing you.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

22. LET'EM RIP!

Now there is something I would LOVE to see. :mad:

It's long past time to see the whole truth about that obscenity.