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Newly Released Documents Detail Guantanamo Facility's Chaotic Early Years

Source: Foxnews (7-2-09)

The documents and memos were turned over to the American Civil Liberties Union as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

Newly released Defense Department documents and memos about the first years of operation of the jail at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, portray a chaotic and sometimes violent operation that its own commanders described as dysfunctional.

The documents and memos were turned over to the American Civil Liberties Union as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The ACLU has sued for release of all materials related to the government's interrogation program after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

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