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The Gitmo Homicides.

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"As news of the deaths emerged the following day, the camp quickly went into lockdown. The authorities ordered nearly all the reporters at Guantánamo to leave and those en route to turn back. The commander at Guantánamo, Rear Admiral Harry Harris, then declared the deaths 'suicides.' In an unusual move, he also used the announcement to attack the dead men. "I believe this was not an act of desperation," he said, 'but an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us.'"

In Gitmo, no one can here you scream. After chatting with four members of a military intelligence unit on the premises, Harper's writer Scott Horton makes a compelling case that three Gitmo suicides in 2006 were in fact covered-up murders, occurring as a result of the Dubya-era torture regime. "All four soldiers say they were ordered by their commanding officer not to speak out, and all four soldiers provide evidence that authorities initiated a cover-up within hours of the prisoners' deaths."

Update: Slate's Dahlia Lithwick calls out the press for its deafening silence. "The fact that three Guantanamo prisoners--none of whom had any links to terrorism and two of whom had already been cleared for release--may have been killed there and the deaths covered up, should be front-page news. That brand-new evidence of this possible atrocity from military guards was given only the most cursory investigation by the Obama administration should warrant some kind of blowback. But changing what we allow ourselves to believe about torture would change the way we have reconciled ourselves to torture. Nobody in this country is prepared to do that. So we have opted to ignore it."

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