Gitmo transcripts now available online
The Defense Department released thousands of pages of records of transcripts of tribunal proceedings for Guantanamo detainees last Friday, as noted in the LA Times:
The records provide the most comprehensive view to date of the Guantanamo prison population, as well as an exhaustive catalog of the U.S. government's charges against detainees who — in page after page of tribunal proceeding transcripts — protest their treatment and proclaim their innocence. The records render portraits of more than 300 current and former detainees. Some described themselves as farmers or low-level Taliban foot soldiers; some were accused by their U.S. captors of having attended Al Qaeda training camps and of being associates of senior terrorist operatives.These documents provide an opportunity for meaningful open-source analysis of terrorist omtivations and tactics - valuable information for people in state and local governments and the private sector who are trying to assess threats to critical infrastructure.
