Guantánamo Bay Manual Leaked

Wired reports on the leaked Guantánamo Bay manual that showed up on Wikileaks.org last week:

A never-before-seen military manual detailing the day-to-day operations of the U.S. military's Guantánamo Bay detention facility has been leaked to the web, affording a rare inside glimpse into the institution where the United States has imprisoned hundreds of suspected terrorists since 2002.

The 238-page document, "Camp Delta Standard Operating Procedures," is dated March 28, 2003. It is unclassified, but designated "For Official Use Only."

The really heinous part of the manual? A section detailing a tagging system for the prisoners, with each category dictating how much access the Red Cross would have to each inmate:

The manual shows how the military coded each prisoner according to the level of access the Red Cross would have. The four levels are:

• * No Access
• * Visual Access -- ICRC can only look at a prisoner's physical condition.
• * Restricted Access -- ICRC representatives can only ask short questions about the prisoner's health.
• * Unrestricted Access

Even more evidence that the government wilfully denied access to detainees for the purposes of precluding oversight, in order to cover up human rights abuses.

The full document can be found on Wikileaks.