Coming Sunday from McClatchy: 'Guantanamo: Beyond the Law'

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http://www.mcclatchydc.com

Starting Sunday
For more than six years, the United States has held hundreds of men at Guantanamo — "the worst of the worst," in the words of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. But the truth was different. McClatchy tracked down 66 men released from Guantanamo in the most systematic survey to date of prisoners held there. Many had no connection to terrorism, but their experience turned them against America.

Video preview here: http://videos.mcclatchydc.com/vmix_hosted_apps/p/media?id=1927337

Here's a preview from the front page of today's Modesto Bee:

In an unprecedented look at the detention system the Bush administration created after Sept. 11, McClatchy Newspapers finds that the United States imprisoned dozens and perhaps hundreds of men in Afghanistan, Cuba and elsewhere on the basis of flimsy or fabricated evidence, old personal scores or bounty payments.

The eight-month investigation in 11 countries on three continents included interviews with 66 released detainees, and with a number of local officials, primarily in Afghanistan.

McClatchy reporters also reviewed available U.S. military tribunal documents and other records.

What did the detainees have to say of their treatment? Where did our government go wrong?

[Tatiana]

1. McClatchy - the only news organization doing actual, real, hard-nosed reporting.

Can't wait to read the full report.

Thanks for the link & recommended.