Don't miss the detainee population visualizations put together by the NYT with help from CoffeeScript/Underscore/Backbone wizard Jeremy Ashkenas:<p><a href="http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo" rel="nofollow">http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo</a>
The New Yorker's Amy Davidson did a really good write-up on this.<p><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2011/04/wikileaks-the-uses-of-guantanamo.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2011/04/wiki...</a><p>The Hindu takes the prize for the most blistering, incandescent (and richly deserved) attack on the US Administration.<p><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article1767369.ece" rel="nofollow">http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article1767369.ec...</a><p>And Al Jazeera hosts some especially pointed commentary about what's NOT included in the leaks.<p><a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/04/2011425182559745235.html" rel="nofollow">http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/04/201142...</a><p>tl;dr: Between them, Clinton and Bush amassed an odious and vile legacy of extrajudicial policy. Obama is too scared of House Republicans to say so, has no way to deal with them effectively, and cannot counter their political threats. Now that the story has gotten ahead of the Presidency, America is (quite fairly) getting slapped around the world for being stupidly violent, prone to extreme over-reaction, and disturbingly lawless.
<i>the document dump sheds light on cases of accidental detentions of innocent or seemingly harmless men, including an Afghan shepherd who spent three years at Gitmo after being arrested near the scene of a roadside explosion</i>
I was hoping the data would be in a text format so that I could build a tree of blame -- so basically you could see exactly how 'information' from someone who may not be giving accurate information impacted future prisoners.<p>Sadly, it's all just embedded PDF files.
Congrats America. We officially torture randoms (some Afghans were given up to the equivalent of a year's salary to turn folks in; quite a nice way of getting rid of some SOB and getting paid). We also violate our laws and constitution, then sit around and circle jerk over whether dunking someone's head under water a couple hundred times until he's just this side of drowning is torture or not. Then, because it's definitely not torture, the cia deletes the videos. Oh, and apparently we now do indefinite detention as well, without legal representation except in front of a kangaroo court, maybe, eventually. Finally, now that we definitely know some people were innocent... we leave them to rot in a cell in Guantanamo.<p>Good job.