Verification's simple: use the "Time Slider" on Google Earth...
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The "Before" image is in 2003, which is somewhat bogus -- because...
By the end of 2004, almost all of the buildings were finished -- including the asterisk-shaped "Rest Home Layout" building north of the main road.
By 2010, the large, light-colored, multi-story building to the west of the "asterisk" building was in place.
The only other significant change (ca 2013) was the addition of "exercise yards" east of the "asterisk" building and a "soccer field" west of the big building north of the road.
The "After" image is ca 2017 -- which is essentially UNCHANGED since 2013.
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>>Bottom line: all the tales of a big, recent expansion or upgrade at Gitmo are HOGWASH!
Great research. Thank you.
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With all due respect, I may disagree. It's not clear because I may not have enough information. I agree that the photo analysis you performed indicates the photos do not reflect recent changes (thank you for once again performing fruitful analysis on information flung at us).
However, I have been reading about upgrades and recent modifications to Gitmo for about 10 months and some do seem to carry weight.
There was an article posted many threads ago featuring a review of renovations. I recall the article discussed (with photos) new blue themed cells and prisoner uniforms that had been added to a new, separate area of the otherwise orange themed cells/uniforms. OTher articles around January emphasized significantly increased staff housing and a (future) medical facility.
In early spring, there was chatter coming from different corners of the Internet - some about newly empaneled tribunals, some about increased training of specific groups of military personnel that would be required to staff Gitmo, support tribunals etc.
We know Q has mentioned military tribunals and an EO from Trump addresses them - why wouldn't preparations be made to modify the prison to accommodate an expanded commission, so to speak? American traitors may be "entitled" to housing that is separate from foreign terrorists.
In an article dated 10/15/18, lefty rag TheHuffingtonPost.com featured an article that seems preparatory to portraying military tribunals as kangaroo courts - I think it means Huffpo took Lindsay Graham's questions to Kavanaugh about the use of military law for American traitors to heart. Here's a quote:
"Meanwhile, in Gitmo’s military commissions, as in the Kavanaugh hearings, a central, impartial, independent authority was missing. They are overseen by judges without the power and command of those in the federal court system. Instead, as was true with the White House during the Kavanaugh hearings, the command influence of the Pentagon ― and at times the CIA ― has hovered over Gitmo’s hearings from day one."
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/guantanamo-kavanaugh-hearings_us_5bc4db63e4b0af7e13a4db4f
Here's a recent video snippet also dated 10/15/18 from a video titled "What Does the GITMO Expansion Mean???"
"we've got a heavy board of advisors
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that's for child rescue and one of them
05:24
was a Navy admiral and he was explaining
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to me I was I asked him very early on I
05:29
said, "I'm hearing about expansion of
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Gitmo Admiral and and it seems like that
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might be in preparation for housing some
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of these these traitors, high-level
05:43
government officials that are that are
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treasonous to the American people. Is
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Gitmo in fact chartered to house those
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type of people or is it just as my
05:55
previous understanding, who knows, just
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international terrorists, and he said, "No,
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Greg it's," he goes, "I was part of the
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board that drafted up the Charter for a
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get money goes it's absolutely for
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high-level government officials who are
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traitors."
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He says. "That's absolutely within
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its Charter." So that was encouraging to
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me so and the build out of Gitmo and and
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all these sealed indictments and the
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fact that it is within the Gitmo charter
06:22"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoAglj2aEt0&t=374s
So while you've (once again) astutely debunked a set of photos purporting to show something they do not show, I don't think ALL talk of Gitmo expansion is hogwash. I still believe that SOME expansion and development, increased staffing has been occurring ahead of the trials to come.
Nice job. I was pretty sure it was BS. Thanks for confirming it.
Who trusts Google?
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You are correct TXnMA, as it applies to prisoner space.
I believe there were some modifications or additions to the space for U.S. troops and other employees.
There has been NO CHANGE in prisoner population since Zero left office. Anything to the contrary is disinfo or Urban Legend.
What is the date of the latest satellite view of GITMO?