Posted on 05/04/2018 5:09:21 AM PDT by bitt
Two days before I left Washington in early February for my first tour inside Guantánamo's prison complex, an email arrived.
"Media representatives must agree to and sign, initialing each page, Media Ground Rules," it read, "prior to being allowed access to JTF-GTMO's area of operations."
Wait, I thought hadn't I already signed media ground rules for reporting at Guantánamo?
I'd been going there for the past three years and a 13-page document I had signed and turned over to military authorities at the base had covered me each time.
It was an access agreement that the Pentagon had worked out in 2010 with input from First Amendment lawyers and executives from news organizations, including NPR.
The email was sent by Navy Cmdr. Anne Leanos. She's the Pentagon's new public affairs officer in Guantánamo. She's also a U.S. Naval Academy graduate and former Mary Kay saleswoman awarded "multiple Pink Cadillacs and company awards," according to an online bio.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/02/20/587195912/on-a-tense-press-tour-of-guant-namos-prison-complex-signs-of-expansion
article that accidentally gives the tribunals away, back on Feb 18?
thanks, txhurl
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Nice room for storage of Brennan, Clapper,Comey, The Hildabeast, and so many others.
:-)
Could it be space for the entire leadership of the DOJ, the FBI and Mueller’s coup plotters? Wishful thinking.
one can only hope...
So your boy Barry had eight years to shut it down and didn't, David. What do you have to say about that?
haha, even NPR got suckered into admitting there is activity down there...
Not to mention the use of the word laborers. Why mention their nationality, at all? And, why not just say workers or cooks?
Oh, yeah....that political point thing, again.
Good news, this is a great facility and very useful to house terrorists.
They are cooks and they are very proud of the job and their abilities. They take turns doing the work for the inmates with working in the military chow hall. And they know what they are doing.
I had to be very strict on my diet while I was there and cut down on snacks and other stuff because the food was really well done. Breakfast was arguably the best, with the cooks making eggs and omelets to order.
Thanks for the first hand description.
This leftist author tagged them as laborers. I doubt thats how they are tefrrred to, by anyone except leftists.
But, it is NPR!!
AND....thank you, for your service!
Put those in the old section. Move the jihadists to the nice new section.
“Could it be space for the entire leadership of the DOJ, the FBI and Muellers coup plotters? Wishful thinking.”
Throughout the article I could hear the whining “journalist” who feels so picked on. Reality is they went to see a prison, not a kindergarten.
Thank you for your service and for posting your perspective on the situation.
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