Friday, June 11, 2004

USATODAY.com - Document warns Guantanamo employees not to talk

USATODAY.com - Document warns Guantanamo employees not to talk: "The document 'suggests that there is something that needs to be hidden' about how detainees are being treated, says Scott Silliman, a Duke University law professor and a former Air Force lawyer. 'It suggests that the default should be: Don't talk.'

Gary Solis, a retired Marine lieutenant colonel, says he gave similar advice to witnesses when he was a military prosecutor. 'There's no impropriety,' says Solis, who teaches law at Georgetown University. But 'the context of this advice gives the appearance of encouraging (people) to be less than forthcoming.'

The Pentagon has been secretive about interrogation tactics at Guantanamo, where suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban operatives have been held for more than two years.
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