Pentagon bans U.S. media from Guantanamo.
By on Jun 14th, 2006 at 10:43 am
Pentagon bans U.S. media from Guantanamo.
Buried at the end of a Miami Herald report today: “Also Tuesday, the military ordered all independent news media off the base by 10 a.m. Wednesday, and had arranged a flight to Miami to expedite their departure. … The correspondents came down to the base on Saturday to cover the aftermath of the suicides, at the invitation of the admiral in charge of the prison. The Pentagon canceled the invitation Tuesday night, despite protests from the newspapers.”
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But it was OK to allow FOX’s B.O. to see them Friday??
June 14th, 2006 at 10:55 amNein, zer vill be no fotos of dez prizoners here. Dis iz in zi interest of zi Motherland Heil Bush.
June 14th, 2006 at 10:57 amPentagon to the media: “Boo-freakin-hoo.”
June 14th, 2006 at 10:58 amYet another example of the press licking the foot that kicks them. Why wasn’t this front page news?
June 14th, 2006 at 10:58 amTP- you guys misspelled Big Brother as ‘pentagon’… :)
June 14th, 2006 at 10:58 amWe don’t want to overthrow the United States of America, we want it returned from the thieves who have shat upon it through their theft of every public necessity for a functioning democracy: elections and the media.
June 14th, 2006 at 10:59 am#3. It took me a while to stop laughing and to get the coffee out of my nose.
June 14th, 2006 at 11:01 amWhy wasn’t this front page news?
Comment by Bruce Gorton — June 14, 2006 @ 10:58 am
Welcome to the Terrified States of America…
June 14th, 2006 at 11:01 amWhy wasn’t this front page news?
Because you will never get these words out of bush’s mouth, and the media is bush’s mouth.
June 14th, 2006 at 11:03 amBill O’Reilly got the whole story on Gitmo, and everything is just fine. We don’t need any more reporters impeding the important work we have going on down there.
June 14th, 2006 at 11:04 amIf reporters stayed, they might find out that it wasn’t all suicides.
I heard one of them was hung above a pool of blood. We are to believe he tried to cut his own wrists, but then chose to hang himself?
The notable lack of motive or explanation or general media coverage about the blood tells me there is much more to this story about Hadith…sorry, Guantanamo Bay story.
June 14th, 2006 at 11:11 amWhat, Herr Gerbells won’t be allowed a field shoot in Gitmo? Excuse my pessimism, by Al-Zakari looked more like a product of Gitmo, than a crash test dummy for two 500 pound bombs. Who would believe any of this “reporting” anyway?
June 14th, 2006 at 11:13 amAs long as the a member of the oppressive Afghani governement says things are hunky-dory at Gitmo then all is well…….(nothing to see here move along)
An Afghan delegation returning from a 10-day visit to the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay said Wednesday that prison conditions there were “humane.”
The head of the delegation, Abdul Jabar Sabhet of the Interior Ministry, said the delegation was given the chance to speak freely with all 96 Afghan prisoners about their living conditions. Sabhet said there were “only one or two” complaints.
“Conditions of the jail was humane. There were rumors in this country about that. It was wrong. What we have seen was OK,” he said.
(ht blah3.com)
If its so “humane” why must the media leave immediately …
June 14th, 2006 at 11:14 amMaybe its time the news media stopped sucking on Bush and started actually, you know, reporting the news. Seriously, in future decades do you want your kids looking back on what is happening now and wondering why nobody said anything? Its time for the media to tell the Right to piss off. Screw the faux balance, screw showing “Both Theories” its time for the news to go back to reporting what is really going on.
June 14th, 2006 at 11:17 amIts so nice to live in a free and open society where the flow of information is not disrupted…..wait….I’m remembering the Clinton days. Silly me
June 14th, 2006 at 11:22 am# 8 Thank you for that. I’ve been toying with ideas for a name to fit the TSA gestapo at the airports…you just hit the nail on the head!! TSA- Terrified States of America. Brilliant!
June 14th, 2006 at 11:25 amIf we can’t read about it then it’s not happening, right?
June 14th, 2006 at 11:30 amWelcome to the police state. The media crawls aways with it’s tail between its legs. We are so f*cked.
June 14th, 2006 at 11:32 amGetting ready to exterminate before closing the Bay ?(then reporting transfers and releases)What nice guys.
June 14th, 2006 at 12:03 pm#17
Yep…the old “What you don’t know won’t hurt you” thing.
June 14th, 2006 at 12:04 pmActually, #20, it’s also “what we don’t know won’t hurt them.”
But we do know. AT LEAST 70%, in spite of this media coma/criminality, hate this man and what he’s done/doing/going to do.
There’s a mighty big bunch of US, and really not very many of them. They just have a bigger mouth and a willingness to lie at all costs to protect themselves.
June 14th, 2006 at 12:18 pmGareth Peirce, on Democracy Now just said that one of the Tipton Three said that the US has to open the doors to Guantanamo Bay; that if the world sees what’s going on, the US will be forced to release everyone there. (Not 20 percent, not 80 percent, but all are innocent.)
That’s why the media is asking to leave.
June 14th, 2006 at 12:21 pmI like ‘unbelievable’s’
June 14th, 2006 at 1:01 pmTerrified States of America
it is worthy of worldwide usage……..
“These aren’t the ‘droids you’re looking for.”
And, yes, unbelievable, you’re so right–good name for a badly-used country.
June 14th, 2006 at 2:26 pmGlad you guys like the line… I just wish that it weren’t true…
June 14th, 2006 at 3:04 pmOOOOOWWWWWW!!
Two compliments on a throw away line–aren’t we feeling all warm and fuzzy about now.
June 14th, 2006 at 4:53 pmKinda like a buzz.Geesh.
Maybe we get lucky and Castro and Chavez run these bloody a-holes out of Gitmo. I’m so sick of being utterly ashamed to be an American. The entire world is watching. We are watching. And we can’t seem to do one damn thing about it.
We can’t even get Rove on a simple perjury charged, for cryin’ out loud. If we can’t do that, how will we ever bring Bush and his band of tyrants to justice for all this death and destruction?
Why won’t we just let those poor souls in Gitmo go?
June 14th, 2006 at 5:11 pmIf we hate Castro, and his country, he hates us, and Cuba has a history of Communism, and almost was the starting point of a nuclear war in the 60’s, how is it we have this base there to begin with?
June 14th, 2006 at 6:34 pmWhat are they hiding?
June 15th, 2006 at 12:03 amHundreds of human beings are held without charge, in cages, without any prospect for clearing their name.
How in God’s name is this right? How can we as Americans allow our own version of the Gulag to continue? What is happening to us?
The really sad part about these 3 people who committed suicide is that now we’ll never really know whether they were guilty of any crime(s) or not. We will never know whether this was done as an act of defiance or whether they were driven by despair.
Any person with a conscience should be haunted by this possibility. But under Bush we’ve become a brutal caricature of ourselves.
June 15th, 2006 at 9:09 am