Bryan Whitman, a principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, has ruled to keep four of my colleagues banned from reporting from Guantanamo Bay. Their offense, as you may recall, was to report the publicly available name of an interrogator who testified to Omar Khadr’s military commission More…
On the heels of a letter to the Pentagon from human rights groups, the news organizations of four journalists banned from Guantanamo Bay for allegedly violating military-commission ground rules have lodged a formal protest to the Office of the Secretary of Defense urging their reinstatement.
On Thursday, right as Round One of Omar Khadr’s pre-trial hearing gaveled to a close at Guantanamo Bay, the Office of the Secretary of Defense announced that four veteran reporters would be barred from returning to the base. Their offense was to report the name of a witness More…
OK, so the Kyrgyz Parliament has kicked the U.S. military out of the Manas airbase logistics hub. It’s not over, do you understand? Do you get it? Nothing’s official? What do you mean, calm down? I AM CALM–
I’m Bryan Whitman, all right? I’m the spokesman for the frigging More…
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