America can't handle the truth – about Guantánamo, torture or a man now free from both | Cori Crider | Comment is free | theguardian.com

  This is why you didn’t see a photo of detainees released over the weekend. This is why I can’t tell you more about the force-feeding of Abu Wa’el Dhiab. This is how the dark heart of the national security state beats

 

Make no mistake: the force-feeding tapes are upsetting. If they do go public, you will probably never see Guantánamo quite the same way again. The footage cuts through years of Pentagon rhetoric. It will force people for whom Guantánamo is a long-forgotten memory to see a human being trapped at the dark heart of the national security state. The tapes show a system that damages not just detainees but the young servicemen and women we ask to participate in it. They are, in short, the truth.

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