US Military To Limit Media Access To Guantanamo Bay Prison

[Purveyor]

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

Dec 17, 6:21 PM EST
BY BEN FOX
ASSOCIATED PRESS

MIAMI (AP) -- New limits are being imposed on media access to the detention center at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the commander of the military's Southern Command said Thursday, outlining rules that will limit what journalists can see and how often they can visit the already highly restricted site.

Journalists will be allowed to visit the center on tours that will be organized once per quarter, lasting no more than a day, and they will no longer be able to visit inside the two detention center camps where a majority of the 107 current prisoners are held, Marine Corps Gen. John F. Kelly said in an interview with The Associated Press.

Kelly said the main reason for the change was that media tours were straining the detention center staff, which has been dealing with an increasing number of visits by members of Congress and foreign delegations from countries where prisoners may be resettled as part of an effort to reduce the prison population.

"We really did have to get some organization to what was going on down there," said the general, whose tenure overseeing U.S. military operations throughout the Southern Hemisphere will come to an end Jan. 14.

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[99th_Monkey]

1. No need to close Gitmo. Just render it totally fucking invisible by edict. Problem solved. nt

[KamaAina]

2. Fair enough. I hereby declare all the prisoners to be journalists.

Escort them off the premises, please.

[KamaAina]

3. Meanwhile, the rest of Cuba is opening up to the U.S.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027455443

[underpants]

4. I see a TRUMP petting zoo

It will be GREAT! HOOG!

[libdem4life]

5. Got to keep all those nosy Human Rights crackpots out of here. They might think we should actually

put them on trial or some such nonsense. So what we were shooting up their country and their families. They all were guilty...we just nabbed a few of them. Also, when we lecture some other country about their Human Rights violations this is so tacky to have to explain and all.

We are such hypocrites.

[GoneFishin]

6. Exactly. It's revolting.