(Harper's Magazine - with further links after the jump)
Army Private Brandon Neely served as a prison guard at Guantánamo in the first years the facility was in operation... “The stuff I did and the stuff I saw was just wrong,”
Neely describes the arrival of detainees in full sensory-deprivation garb, he details their sexual abuse by medical personnel, torture by other medical personnel, brutal beatings out of frustration, fear, and retribution, the first hunger strike and its causes, torturous shackling, positional torture, interference with religious practices and beliefs, verbal abuse, restriction of recreation, the behavior of mentally ill detainees, an isolation regime that was put in place for child-detainees.
He describes body searches undertaken for no legitimate security purpose, simply to sexually invade and humiliate the prisoners. ... The Bush White House vehemently objected to provisions of the law dealing with rape by instrumentality. When House negotiators pressed to know why, they were met with an embarrassed acknowledgement that a key part of the Bush program included invasion of the bodies of prisoners in a way that might be deemed rape by instrumentality under existing federal and state criminal statutes.
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