Faux: Soccer and Board Games and outfits at Guantanamo Bay

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,160919,00.html


HENNEBERG: And providing intelligence, right. For those who are the most compliant, more helpful, they are put in what’s called Camp Four. It’s a more communal living setting. And maybe not what you expect when you think of Gitmo.

They live in a dorm-type room. They are able to eat together. They are able to spend some time outside, as you see here on TV. They get about nine hours outside.

When we were there, we even saw them playing some soccer. And I saw a ping-pong table when I was there. And you notice they’re wearing the tan outfits, the tan clothing, gray clothing. That’s also sort of a privilege, as they consider it down in Gitmo, instead of the orange jumpsuits, who are for the less compliant detainees. These people in Camp Four get to wear their tan-colored ones.

HUME: And what about, the rooms or the cells that they’re in? What do they — how would you characterize them? What do they — this looks like...

HENNEBERG: This is a soccer game. This is where they’re playing soccer, as our tour was kind of going by.

HUME: And this, I take it — and that’s a soccer game. And this is what — is one of the good cells or the bad cells?

HENNEBERG: This is for less-compliant detainees. Now, still, even you’re a less compliant detainee, you’re seeing here there still are creature comforts that you can earn. You can still earn a tan outfit. There are board games.

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1. Its one big club med over there

HENNEBERG: We did. We saw a number of interrogations. One of the interrogations was with a detainee who knew nine of the 9/11 hijackers. And we saw an interrogation there that — it was a female interrogator.

And the analyst who was outside watching it with us said that detainee was getting along with her and actually providing information, even now, about a low-level Al Qaeda (search) member who has risen up the ranks and wasn’t on the Pentagon’s screen two or three years ago but now is. And they are getting some information from this detainee, now, with this female

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2. the guy that pulled all his hair out

had he just lost a game of Monopoly?

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3. Harry Potter books and chicken

HENNEBERG: But I was asking one of the guards about that. Why something like a "Harry Potter" book? And he said it’s about building relationships. You read this book, and maybe you see the detainee laugh, maybe you see him crook an ear and try and hear part of the story, and maybe you have an in to try and say, "Oh, did you like that part? Do you like these kinds of stories?" Building a relationship.

HUME: What about — we hear a lot about food down in Guantanamo. What did you find? Did you get to eat any of it?

HENNEBERG: I did. I ate a detainee meal. Here you see them being passed out in those Styrofoam cartons. There you see Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (search) about to eat a meal, as well. Chicken and orange sauce, rice and okra, and bread, this is exactly what the detainees were getting that day. There you see the chairmen of the House Armed Services

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4. Prepping for Abu Ghraib photos, I see.

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5. Yeah...special priveleges for "compliant prisoners"...

Read the novel "King Rat" (I believe by James Clavell???) and see the difference between treatment of compliant and non-compliant prisoners...Oh yeah-see which ones you sympathize with...

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6. hubby calls it a dog and pony show

soon as they left the rubber hoses came out.

They did the same thing with concentration camps in Germany and it was the same in Vietnam.