Guantánamo Mea Culpa

Army Pvt. Brandon Neely confesses his sins, and ours as a nation — Former Gitmo guard recalls abuse, climate of fear. The "burly Texan who served for a year in Iraq after his six months at Guantanamo" recounts to the world when "he grabbed a trembling, elderly detainee and ground his face into the cement."

Another guard "saw several abuses during his service at Guantanamo in 2003, including detainees subjected to cold temperatures and loud music," and "later converted to Islam." A "medic punched a handcuffed prisoner in the face for refusing to swallow a liquid nutritional supplement, and another bragged about cruelly stretching a prisoner's torn muscles during what was supposed to be physical therapy treatments." The same Texan recalls that "detainees were forced to submit to take showers and defecate into buckets in full view of female soldiers, against Islamic customs."