The Guantánamo “Suicides”: A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle

In March there will be a story published in Harper’s Magazine written by human-rights attorney Scott Horton that speaks to an alleged triple murder carried out by either military and/or intelligence operatives of our government involving three detainees at the Guantanamo detention camp in Cuba.  A soldier who was stationed at the unit when the alleged murders occurred has come forward with the story. 

Apparently these three men were described by our people on scene in their official reports as having committed suicide.  The problem is that their hands and/or feet were bound when they were found hanging in their cells with rags stuffed down their throats.  This happened June 9, 2006.

The problem for the Obama Administration is that there is apparently evidence available to independent investigators that (1) the present Administration knew of these alleged murders and (2) continued the cover-up of the murders once it took office.  This flies in the face of President Obama’s promise that in closing Guantanamo it would be in order to “restore the standards of due process and the core constitutional values that have made this country great.”

 The full article will be available in Harper’s Magazine in less than six weeks.