U.S. backs ban on 3 reporters at Guantanamo

[unhappycamper]

Flags hang above the sign marking the Camp Justice compound, the site of the U.S. war crimes tribunal in this image approved for release by the military at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Thursday, July 16, 2009.

U.S. backs ban on 3 reporters at Guantanamo
Posted on Tuesday, 06.15.10
Miami Herald Staff

The Department of Defense said Monday it acted correctly when it barred three journalists, including Miami Herald reporter Carol Rosenberg, from covering military hearings at Guantánamo Bay.

But it left open the door to reinstating the reporters.

David A. Schulz, the attorney representing Rosenberg and reporters from Canwest News Service and the Toronto Star, had asked for a reversal of the coverage ban. The exclusion also affects a fourth reporter from The Globe and Mail who appealed independently.

``It is my determination that officials of the Department were correct to take the actions they did against these three individuals,'' Bryan G. Whitman, principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, wrote Monday in a letter to Schulz.

But he added that the department would ``consider lifting the coverage ban on these reporters if they individually request reinstatement.''



unhappycamper comment: The Guantanamo Bay nightmare just keeps rolling along......

[Solly Mack]

1. That's a cringe-worthy name.

Camp Justice...

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. transparency?