I'll bet the nitwits behind this publication at Newsweek are reveling in the reaction they created thinking that they have so powerful as to affect international events. They will see this as a big resume builder.
The writers were Michael Isikoff and John Barry. I've been surfing all evening trying to find the original article.. seems Newsweek has it handily tucked away, and if you'll notice, all the articles online about it leave out the authors names (those dudes really stick together, don't ya think?)
Anyway, for you and anyone interested.. i finally found a link to the article on Roger L. Simon's blog..
http://www.rogerlsimon.com/mt-archives/2005/05/299_words_from.php
The title of the article is Gitmo:SouthCom Showdown
The paragraph reads as follows:
"May 9 issue - Investigators probing interrogation abuses at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay have confirmed some infractions alleged in internal FBI e-mails that surfaced late last year. Among the previously unreported cases, sources tell NEWSWEEK: interrogators, in an attempt to rattle suspects, flushed a Qur'an down a toilet and led a detainee around with a collar and dog leash. An Army spokesman confirms that 10 Gitmo interrogators have already been disciplined for mistreating prisoners, including one woman who took off her top, rubbed her finger through a detainee's hair and sat on the detainee's lap. (New details of sexual abuse—including an instance in which a female interrogator allegedly wiped her red-stained hand on a detainee's face, telling him it was her menstrual blood—are also in a new book to be published this week by a former Gitmo translator.)"
You think all this is just a leadup to some flunky's "NEW BOOK"? This is where they got their 'facts' from???
~mugged~
Bingo. Resume and ego builder.
Not much of a resume builder if the advertisers are notified they have one month to pull all ads from the magazine or face boycott, imo.