15 June 2006

More crackdowns on freedom of the press: What is Rumsfeld hiding at Gitmo?

Just when it seems as though the American mainstream media might be waking up from their 5-year coma, Donald Rumsfeld throws up another roadblock to freedom of the press and the American public's right to know.

The admiral in charge of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay had invited journalists to come on down and cover the recent suicides of three detainees.

But, yesterday, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld rescinded the invitation and expelled all reporters from Guantanamo. [Read story.]

What is he hiding?

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