Vice Magazine:
What really happened at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility on the night of June 9, 2006?
According to the US government, three detainees — all imprisoned as part of the global war on terror — hung themselves in their cells that night. But Army Staff Sergeant Joseph Hickman, who was on guard that night at Camp Delta, came to believe something very different: that the three men were murdered in a secret CIA black site at Guantanamo.
After leaving the Army, Hickman spent years looking into the deaths. His investigation has led him to write a new book, Murder at Camp Delta…
There was speculation at the end of the year that “The Obama administration is accelerating its efforts to shut down the Guantanamo Bay detention center, preparing to move dozens of inmates out of the prison in coming months in a step forward for President Obama’s redoubled attempt to achieve a core national security objective before he leaves office.” It was elsewhere reported that President “Obama is also shifting his strategy by portraying the closure of the facility in Cuba as a fiscal issue… the administration hopes that reducing the prison’s population to just a few detainees will bolster its argument that keeping the facility open isn’t cost-effective.” When the new Cuba initiatives were announced, even the Grey Lady admitted that Guantanamo “remains a sore point for Cubans, a deeply felt grievance that the Castros, first Fidel and now his brother Raúl, have long pointed to as a stinging symbol of American imperialism.” The sooner that blot is removed, the better!
I read the Harpers excerpt from Hickman’s book (mentioned in the video around the 10:30 mark) back in 2010, but Harpers notoriously discourages internet links to its print work, and trying to write a coherent post eventually drove me to give up in despair. It’s become clear, since then, that a significant portion of the American public is perfectly happy that “we” torture people to death, and an even greater percentage just doesn’t care enough to keep the torture enthusiasts in line. But “we” will be paying for our sins, at Guantanamo and elsewhere, long after Dick Cheney’s artificial heart has ceased to propel his carcass.
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