Through the looking-glass
April 22, 2007 12:43 PM Subscribe
No fairytales allowed; Lawyer Clive Stafford Smith has 36 clients in Guantanamo and has visited many times. This is an extract from a new book where he argues that secrecy is a disease. A further extract explors the surreal world of the prison's media relations, where the only journalist with real access is one of the inmates. Stafford Smith was one of the narrators is this excellent recent FPP. Here is the site of his UK organisation.
Either try them or let them go, this situation is interminable. A colleague was in Guantanamo last month for the first time and she could barely have any contact with her client.
posted by Falconetti at 1:48 PM on April 22, 2007
posted by Falconetti at 1:48 PM on April 22, 2007
In a December 2004 press conference, the US navy secretary Gordon England tried to defend conditions in Guantánamo by producing the novel argument that the camp was rehabilitative: "People have learned to read and have learned to write, and so it's not just being incarcerated. We do try to get people prepared for a better life."
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posted by JHarris at 2:27 PM on April 22, 2007
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posted by JHarris at 2:27 PM on April 22, 2007
Sickening. And completely what I expected to hear. What a bunch of cowards the US government is.
posted by lupus_yonderboy at 2:46 PM on April 22, 2007
posted by lupus_yonderboy at 2:46 PM on April 22, 2007
s/is/are/
posted by lupus_yonderboy at 2:54 PM on April 22, 2007
posted by lupus_yonderboy at 2:54 PM on April 22, 2007
*sigh*
posted by BrotherCaine at 1:10 AM on April 23, 2007
posted by BrotherCaine at 1:10 AM on April 23, 2007
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