News outlets protest censorship at Guantanamo hearings
Veteran Gitmo reporter Carol Rosenberg writes:
At issue is the war court system that employs a 40-second delay of the proceedings, time enough to let an intelligence official hit a white noise button if any of the men describe what CIA agents did to them after their capture in Pakistan in 2002 and 2003 and before their arrival at Guantánamo in September 2006.
In its motion, filed May 2, the ACLU called the practice censorship and said it was premised on “a chillingly Orwellian claim” that the accused “must be gagged lest he reveal his knowledge of what the government did to him.”
* Media, ACLU to argue against censorship at Guantanamo (Miami Herald)
