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The Sadism at Gitmo: A Detainee Speaks

When Dan Rather’s team interviewed former Guantánamo detainee Lakhdar Boumediene, he spoke of sexual humiliation, painful forced feeding, and medical mistreatment at the camp. But the admiral in charge at Gitmo denied the allegations, and described a facility he’d be proud “to show his mom." Who is lying?

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Investigative journalism, like democracy and love, comes down to the question of whom to trust. Except when you have the listening device under the Mafioso’s desk or the hidden camera in the dirty restaurant kitchen, there’s always an element of, “you finds your source, you takes your chances.”

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