Pentagon banning U.S. media from Guantanamo.

[kpete]

Pentagon banning U.S. media from Guantanamo.

Buried at the end of a Miami Herald report today: “Also Tuesday, the military ordered all independent news media off the base by 10 a.m. Wednesday, and had arranged a flight to Miami to expedite their departure. … The correspondents came down to the base on Saturday to cover the aftermath of the suicides, at the invitation of the admiral in charge of the prison. The Pentagon canceled the invitation Tuesday night, despite protests from the newspapers.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/06/14/pentagon-banning-us-media-from-guantanamo/
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/14810553.htm

[Canuckistanian]

1. Ah yes, the Shrub solution to every problem

Make it secret or make it invisble.

Above all, don't try to actually deal with the problem.

[The2ndWheel]

2. Oh my god!

As long as the Pentagon exists, we're never going to fix anything.

I can't believe it! How could they do that in a free, open country! I want it back!!!!!!!!!!

[magellan]

3. What are they up to now?

Couldn't carry out the regularly scheduled tortures with the press hanging around? Getting ready to render a few more detainees?

Those poor souls.

And for any freepers reading, f*ck you. I hope one day you and your loved ones get rounded up for being in the wrong place at the wrong time and are treated to indefinite detention by the military without charge or legal counsel.

[kpete]

4. Another link

EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon Orders U.S. Reporters to Exit Guantanamo

By Greg Mitchell and Joe Strupp

Published: June 14, 2006 10:55 AM ET

NEW YORK In the aftermath of the three suicides at the notorious Guantanamo prison facility in Cuba last Saturday, reporters with the Los Angeles Times and the Miami Herald were ordered by the office of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to leave the island today.

A third reporter and photographer with the Charlotte Observer were given the option of staying until Saturday but, E&P has learned, were told that their access to the prison camp was now denied. An E&P "Pressing Issues" column on Tuesday covered an eye-opening dispatch by the Observer's Michael Gordon carried widely in other papers. He had listened in, with permission, as the camp commander gave frank instructions to staff on how to respond to the suicides.

A Pentagon spokesman confirmed the order to leave the island this morning, but told E&P it was unrelated to the stories produced by the journalists, while admitting that Gordon's piece had caused "controversy." He asserted that the move was related to other media outlets threatening to sue if they were not allowed in.

"All three have been screaming like it is going out of style," he said.


http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002687978