Comments on: The Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg on How to Report From Guantanamo Bay

The Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg on How to Report From Guantanamo Bay

Elementary Penguin — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:38:35 -0800

The Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg has reported from the detention center at Guantanamo Bay since the first detainee arrived in 2002. Last month, President Obama scuttled the office responsible for closing the center, which means Gitmo's "media tent city" will be a permanent press encampment for the foreseeable future. Petra Bartosiewicz spoke with the veteran correspondent by phone from Gitmo's Camp Justice, where Rosenberg has been covering pretrial hearings this month of the alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

By: roomthreeseventeen

roomthreeseventeen — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:45:21 -0800

I have been to the bowling alley. Bowling for Guantanamo

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:00:23 -0800

There's a transgressive part of me that wants to nosh at the KFC there.

By: the young rope-rider

the young rope-rider — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:03:07 -0800

Woah. Thanks for posting this, it's really interesting.

By: A Bad Catholic

A Bad Catholic — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:17:41 -0800

"there's a red sticker on my phone that says, 'This telephone is subject to monitoring at all times, use of this phone constitutes consent to monitoring.' I think being on this island basically constitutes consent to being monitored." Just for frame of reference, this sticker is present on a lot of phones in the Army, so it isn't just a Gitmo thing. The U.S. Army loves stickers.

By: niccolo

niccolo — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:31:40 -0800

It really is absurd, Kafkaesque that it has taken ten years, and at last we can say for certain that the bureaucratic perpetual motion machine has been created. Gitmo spins away, aimless, infinite, a motor. Nobody knows where it is going, but I have an inkling of a far future, when after years of aging, one 90 year old prisoner is left talking to some strangely curious soldier: "The moment I pass on, I think it will sigh deeply and at last relax: Gitmo will feel release, it will feel free, it will finally be allowed to spin down. What a life of strain, going nowhere but circles. I feel sorry for the base itself, I do."

By: ennui.bz

ennui.bz — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:55:57 -0800

Obama vows to shut down Guantanamo Bay...

By: pjern

pjern — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:06:52 -0800

It feels to me like a modern day Spandau, open until the last prisoner dies, much like Rudolph Hess in 1987 Berlin.

By: inflatablekiwi

inflatablekiwi — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:21:03 -0800

Sadly Air Sunshine doesn't seem to offer its charter flights to GTMO anymore. Now that would have been an awesome boarding pass...flying on Sunshine to beautiful Guantanamo-Bay Naval Station.

By: filthy light thief

filthy light thief — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:07:13 -0800

Gitmo's Camp Justice was named by TSgt Neil Felver of the 122 Civil Engineering Squadron in a name the camp contest, though I can't find any online source to back that up. I'd like to see what the runners-up were.

By: bepe

bepe — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:41:03 -0800

It's a weird place. Really dark stuff side by side with the banal. I have a commemorative JTF GTMO t-shirt from the detention center gift shop, from an acquaintance involved in the trials. Needless to say I don't wear it around.

By: bepe

bepe — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:42:58 -0800

But I will say also that I appreciated have Ms. Rosenberg's writing since she was first was posted there and am really glad she has stuck around. Someone needs to have that continuous institutional knowledge. Someone other than the detainees, anyway.

By: Bwithh

Bwithh — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:43:27 -0800

To get here you have to fly to D.C. You show up at a golf course near Andrews Air Force Base at about five in the morning ?? golf course outside the air base ??

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:48:56 -0800

> ?? golf course outside the air base ?? Presumably, they meant a parking lot where a bus or van picks you up.

By: ennui.bz

ennui.bz — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:00:38 -0800

Nope, it's a golf course...

Reflecting a military presence; the classic sense of style and gracious hospitality, The Courses at Andrews Air Force Base carries an air of true timeless elegance. High-end amenities, exceptional facilities and an unforgettable golf experience are the standard at this military resort.

I'm at the golf course, I'm at the air force base, I'm at the golf course at the airforce base...

By: herbplarfegan

herbplarfegan — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:08:28 -0800

I don't know if it's of any import that I got through 8 comments before I realized that I was in fact not in the Rihanna thread.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:19:49 -0800

Right, it's a golf course. But it's not like they pick you up at the secret entrance near the 8th green or something. The course parking lot is more easily accessible than the base is.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:40:58 -0800

The Latin American Exception: How a Washington Global Torture Gulag Was Turned Into the Only Gulag-Free Zone on Earth

By: homunculus

homunculus — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:50:22 -0800

The Colbert Report: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's Trial at Gitmo: Guantanamo Bay hosts a one-of-a-kind military tribunal, which is being spied on and controlled by unidentified forces. Neal Katyal: The former Acting Solicitor General talks about the U.S. justice system, courtroom bugging and the future of Guantanamo Bay.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:58:53 -0800

Club Gitmo Number of Hunger Strikers Surges at Guantánamo