Former Guard Tells All: Gitmo under Bush included "rape by instrument" »
Posted By Aidenag 10 months, 3 weeks ago in NewsArmy Private Brandon Neely served as a prison guard at Guantánamo in the first years the facility was in operation. With the Bush Administration, and thus the threat of retaliation against him, now gone, Neely decided to step forward and tell his story.
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Hhussk10 months, 3 weeks ago
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It would have been a better, more credible, story if it hadn't been an account of a single person. Something of this magnitude would have been witnessed by more people and there would have been more testimonies.
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jack70andhalf10 months, 3 weeks ago
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Amazing, I was in GITMO for forty months, I don't think I remember EVER seeing an ARMY PRIVATE. Jar heads yea, squids, yeah, but NO SOLDIERS! would be good to check. Someone is not familiar with the military who wrote this. Sort of like saying a sailor can tell you about Fort Bragg. mmmmmmmmmm?
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BB6410 months, 3 weeks ago
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With the DNC in control of the House and Senate, this was his only way to get the "story" out? I'm sorry, I don't trust stories like this and would recommend a credible news source or review. No offense but Gitmo has a higher standard for prisoner services than most of our state and fed prisons. Not that it couldn't happen, I wouldn't put it past any zealous commander but this reminds of the claims from a soldier making war crimes claims only to be proven a liar. Again, I'm not attacking Brandon Neely, but I'd like more information. Perhaps an FBI investigation should be done on his claims. They tend to be unbiased and rather thorough.
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Aidenag10 months, 3 weeks ago
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Credible news source BB64??
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Do you not realize that harpers has been around since 1850? Or that they were the ones who broke the Mai Lai Massacre story back in the 70's with Seymour Hersh? Or that such people as Horatio Alger, Winston Churchill, Mark Twain, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Robert Frost, Kurt Vonnegut, John Muir and literally hundreds of other's have contributed to the magazine over the years?
That lame "but they aren't credible" line just doesn't work when you use it against one of the oldest publications in United States history... One which has had such people as the ones listed above involved with it.
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specialsarg10 months, 3 weeks ago
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I think this private is full of crap. Must have been a slacker. I was at GITMO in 2003-2004. I sat on many of a FBI and CIA, etc.. interrogations and not one time did I see one detainee get tortured. I would not have allowed it. Furthermore, concerning the IRF teams, at no time were they utilized to mistreat detainees. They were used for many reasons. For example, then their was an outbreak of TB, they refused to get a TB shot, thus IRF teams were utilized to remove them and give them one. Also utilized to remove a detainee when he was unrulym one detainee attempted to grab and pull a guard thru the feed tray door. No one has really ever mention how many times guards would have feces, urine, or semen thrown on them. The gurards would just have to take it and drive on. Even MG Miller while walking thru the blocks would have stuff thrown on them. LIke this Private, I to talked to David Hicks and the "Tipton Trio". Rhule told me that he could not wait to go home and make millions off his stay here. Let me tell you, he did not have it that bad, he would get special treatment with Mcdonalds, Pizza Hut and get FHM and Stuff magazines at his request. So, I think this private was probable a **** poor private and proably had no choice but to get out. I was an NCO during my time there.
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Georgia5010 months, 3 weeks ago
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Hey...the accusation fits the mindset. Who needs credibility, evidence or corroboration? Even if this guy served, we will wait in vain for the misfits in here to apologize once his perfidy comes to light. Once a liberals stabs you in the back, there's no follow up to see if the attack was deserved or not.
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