Posted on 02/16/2009 8:10:53 PM PST by GLH3IL
On December 4, 2008, Specialist Brandon Neely approached CSHRA with testimony he wished to contribute to the Guantánamo Testimonials Project. He believed that insufficient attention had been paid to "the hell that went on at Camp X-Ray." He would be in a position to know, as he arrived in Guantánamo while the cages of Camp X-Ray were still being welded, and escorted the second detainee to hit the prison grounds. In this interview, Specialist Neely provides testimony of the arrival of the detainees...
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“He was in the army for 5 years and only made specialist? If he was worth a crap, he should have been E-6 after 5 years.”
Or at least E-5.
Based on his writings, I’d say that he failed the board at least once or twice.
Yeah probably at a McDonalds or Burger King from the looks of it.
I read the (very long) interview. He seems credible....but, none of the abuses he cites are much worse than what I’ve seen on the Discovery Channel, in stories about high security U.S. Prisons. He seems to have given in to a “Stockholme Syndrome” like respect and friendship with the prisoners also. He is very young, and he feels genuine guilt over these minor abuses...and the leftist are exploiting him much like they did with Cindy Sheehan. The tenor of the questions was over the top.
LOL! Too funny!
Let’s see now, this guy admits to abusing detainees and is ashamed now, but it is all someone else’s fault?
Seems he will fit in just perfect with the merry band of Kerry kooks.
This group is to Hanoi Boy Kerry’s “Winter Soldiers” what the Cub Scouts are to the Boy Scouts.
He told us yes, that was him in the picture with the RPG, but that was not even Afghanistan; the picture had been taken in Kosovo--I believe he said.
Hicks did not come across as the cold-blooded killer we were told all these guys were. He was a normal guy like me. And not much older. He would sit there, crack a joke, and make small talk. Just like any other normal person would.
right before they kill you.
Agree. I think he’s having legitimate adjustment problems. He seems rather immature and not suitable for MP duty. He’s seeking some sort of recognition and validation because he has an underdeveloped sense of himself. What he described is objectively not torture. There are internal mechanisms to deal with the rare incidents wherein a guard or other staff steps over the line. Some day, he’ll regret his betrayal of his fellow soldiers.
Please tell me that some patriotic Texan has beaten the shit out of this traitor.
All I had time to read was the story about the detainee who wouldn’t drink the can of Ensure, a common nutrient they would give detainees who were malnourished, so as to
(obviously) head off inevitable criticisms of “starving” the prisoners intentionally. Multiple requests to take the liquid from multiple officials led to an ugly incident where he was hit as a last resort, and he still didn’t effectively swallow the liquid. Neely later claims he found out (from other prisoners) that the man thought he was being poisoned,which begs the question of why the countless other prisoners who’d drunk Ensure couldn’t tell him it wasn’t poison? Or why didn’t he see that for himself? IN any event, this particular ‘incident’ looks like it might not have even been avoidable if they’d had use of a translator/
Unless he signs an affidavit (and the IVAW guys never do), this “testimony” can safely be regarded as leftist anti-military agitprop.
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