The files were provided to WikiLeaks by Chelsea Manning, the courageous US army whistleblower. The Obama administration, in which Joe Biden served as vice president, was as hostile to the publication of the Guantánamo Files as the earlier WikiLeaks releases. A WikiLeaks statement, announcing the release of the files, said they proved that “the entire edifice constructed by the [US] government is fundamentally unsound, and that what the Guantánamo Files reveal, primarily, is that only a few dozen prisoners are genuinely accused of involvement in terrorism. Perhaps the most brazen demonstration of the illegality involved was provided by the files of the youngest and oldest detainees. To justify the continuing mass imprisonment, the US jailers cultivated a handful of sources at Guantánamo, who provided “evidence” against hundreds of other inmates.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 01, 2021 04:18 UTC