Colonel John Bogdan, the warden of Guantanamo, inflicts harsh treatment to chill access to counsel.

Guantanamo leadership/guards are ramping up their power-trip of punishing the prisoners. If the President wants to drag this out longer, a total change of leadership and guards should happen. Perhaps get rid of the American military and let an International group manage the prisoners.

May 23, 2013

Exclusive: Attorneys for Guantanamo detainees ask federal judge to intervene in order to end widespread prisoner abuses. Attorneys defending more than a dozen Guantanamo prisoners have asked a federal court judge to immediately suspend a new policy enacted at the detention facility over the past month that requires the prisoners to submit to a genital search when they exit the camps to speak with their lawyers and return to their cells.

The filing also includes declarations from attorneys alleging prisoners have been subjected to psychological abuse in the form of solitary confinement, stress positions, sleep deprivation and temperature manipulation.

...prisoners "have been deprived of soap, toothpaste and comfort items for the past month...According to my clients, the ride from the detainee's camp to Echo takes about 10 minutes but "much longer" to Delta and adjoining facilities. At the end of March, it appears, [Joint Task Force] replaced the regular vans with vans that have too little interior headroom to permit a detainee to sit upright, forcing him to ride the bumpy roads with his back and neck bent. Thus, a detainee wishing to meet with his lawyer or have calls with his lawyer or family has to travel in a stress position, in addition to submitting to an intrusive and humiliating body search."

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