MB Civic

report on Wikileaks Guantanamo files by Carol Rosenberg and Tom Lasseter of McClatchy Newspapers ..

The world may have thought the U.S. was detaining a band of international terrorists whose questioning would help the hunt for Osama Bin Laden or foil the next 9/11. But a collection of secret Bush-era intelligence documents not meant to surface for another 20 years shows that the military’s efforts at Guantanamo often were much less effective than the government has acknowledged. Viewed as a whole, the secret intelligence summaries help explain why in May 2009 President Barack Obama, after ordering his own review of wartime intelligence, called America’s experiment at Guantanamo “quite simply a mess.”

and Firedoglake’s Emptywheel has post up about the files that focuses on Abu Zubaydah ..

the report on Abu Zubaydah reads partly like an attempt to glue together a lot of contradictory information–without assessing the credibility of any one piece of that information–and an either willful or unconscious effort to tell a narrative that justifies what those in charge of Gitmo were doing. But a close reading reveals that it doesn’t succeed

at one point they arrested a random Pakistani sheepherder so he could supposedly give them info about secret mountain trails .. our tax dollars at work – mab