Guantanamo Prepares for Renovations

[Rose Siding]

..."The majority of individuals here today are not of intelligence value to me," said Steve Rodriguez, the civilian head of intelligence at the naval base. Even with unlimited resources to pursue interrogations, Rodriguez said, he wouldn't advocate keeping them jailed.

"It's to our advantage to have people released or transferred," he said, because it sends a message to the noncompliant when they see a fellow detainee who was more cooperative walk out.
Rodriguez, as well as other officials who spoke on condition they not be identified, noted that being deemed of little intelligence value doesn't necessarily translate into freedom.
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Of the planned improvements to the detention facilities, Hood said, he considers the psychiatric ward to be the first priority. The Naval Hospital annex is holding about a dozen detainees diagnosed as chronic psychotics, hospital commander Capt. Steve Edmondson said.

At least 34 suicide attempts have been thwarted, as was a massive "self-harm action" in August 2003 when dozens of detainees tried to hang themselves with bedding or clothing. One suicide attempt resulted in permanent brain damage, but none of the other incidents led to serious injury, Edmondson said.

After the psychiatric ward, Hood said, Guantanamo needs the new prison, then a perimeter wall equipped with movement sensors that would eliminate the need for 300 reservists currently patrolling outside.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gitmo19jan19,0,589025.story?coll=la-home-nation

[donsu]

1. they need to clean the blood, urine, vomit from the floors & walls

before the next batch of humans arrive to be tortured.

[durablend]

2. Is that part of Martha Stewart's sentence?

Are they going to splurge on new drapes or just the paint job?

[hedda_foil]

3. OMG, there was a mass suicide attempt!

They call it a "self harm action" but these people really tried to hang themselves!

[Rose Siding]

4. Yep- right after the hospital commander's own words

about there being just a dozen "psychotics"

[Solly Mack]

5. ???????????? "psychiatric ward " ???????

so if they're not labeled "terrorists" they can be labeled "chronic psychotics" and held indefinitely anyway?

[RuleofLaw]

6. Makes you wonder

how many of the detainees where psychotic before they arrived at Guantanamo or if they became psychotic because of the treatment!


"Of the planned improvements to the detention facilities, Hood said, he considers the psychiatric ward to be the first priority. The Naval Hospital annex is holding about a dozen detainees diagnosed as chronic psychotics, hospital commander Capt. Steve Edmondson said."

[Spazito]

7. Gee, one has to wonder if they are going to add 'the rack' to

all their improvements, after all, Condi says torture is fine.