Posted on 02/20/2009 7:49:09 PM PST by Steelfish
WASHINGTON – The Pentagon says the Guantanamo Bay prison meets the standard for humane treatment laid out in the Geneva Conventions, according to a report for President Barack Obama, who has ordered the terrorist detention center closed within a year.
The report recommended some changes, including an increase in group recreation for some of the camp's more dangerous or less compliant prisoners, according to a government official familiar with the study.
The report also suggested allowing those prisoners to gather in groups of three or more, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the report has not officially been released.
Some of the hard-core prisoners are not currently allowed to meet with other prisoners for prayer or socialization and are kept in their cells for 23 hours a day. Alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed is among the prisoners who could be affected by the change.
Prolonged social isolation has been known to harm mental health among prisoners.
The 85-page report by Adm. Patrick M. Walsh, the Navy's second in command, was written in response to Obama's Jan. 22 executive order to close the facility at the U.S. naval base in Cuba within a year.
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Allright! it only took a month for Zero to make it humane! /s
We are better than anyone else. Better than we should be.
Put out the story at night on a Friday so you think no one notices, are we?
Now who’s being cowardly?
Sure they do.
They couldn’t say that before GW left office?
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE POWER! Not the people. Just their votes.
Hussein is a fitting name for a DIC TATOR!
Liberal heads to EXPLODE.
The problem with this report is that it was written by a member of the US military. Obama is setting up a situation where Americans must choose between trusting Obama or trusting them—as if he were not the CinC but an outside crusader (sorry) whose job is to clean it up.
Obama will of course brush aside this report because “the court of world opinion” or whatever will prevail.
At some point people will realize Obama is about the world brotherhood of socialists, first and only, and that dissolving the barriers that keep the US whole is a crucial step on the way to the one world government.
LOL! Everyone count to 5 before the anti-war whackjobs start going ballistic about Hussein’s promises.
here’s the liberal hit-line:
> “Prolonged social isolation has been known to harm mental health among prisoners.”
The response will be to shoot the messenger.
Of course they’d consider this a whitewash if it came when W was president.
LOL! Yeah the liberals probably think that "social isolation" is "torture. When it comes to mental health, the "experts" at the Ass. Press are morons. We're talking about people who strap explosives to themselves to blow up innocent people. I think the "mental health" thing is a non-issue.
The concept of truth will be gone for the next 4 yrs. Hypocrisy will be the coin of the realm.
Bush says it, it’s a lie. Obama’s Pentagon says it, it’s the truth.
And make sure they have cell phones, internet access, and any reading material they wish, like sensitive blue-prints to American infrastructure. We need to do everything we can to impress a bunch of worthless anti-semitic socialists in Europe...so they'll like us again. They're upset that we've removed their beloved oil-for-food guy Saddam Hussein so we need to do anything we can to win their respect./s
> We’re talking about people who strap explosives to themselves to blow up innocent people. I think the “mental health” thing is a non-issue.
—Exactly. And when you ask these libtard imbeciles if they would like to open their own homes to these..’victims”, they would be the first to emphatically say NO. Hypocrites.
Is Gitmo still open? This can not be true.
Pity we don’t give them false information and let them destroy themselves.
It must be nice to own the media.
it is now
Official: Pentagon report defends Guantanamo
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