Prisoners Revealed!

One new development, since WikiLeaks released the Guantanamo Bay files, is that one of the prisoners was an Al-Qaida assassin, who had previously worked for MI6. The article unveils that he ‘withheld important information from the Canadian Secret Intelligence Service and British Secret Intelligence Service … and to be a threat to US and allied personnel in Afghanistan and Pakistan’ (Guardian, 2011), because prisoners were found to be held in Guantanamo Bay with little evidence there has, quite obviously, been further research into other prisoners and the findings have been quite shocking.

It has been argued that WikiLeaks has obtained these Guantanamo Bay cables illegally, which raises the issue of “sheer bureaucratic incompetence” of the US military’s intelligence gathering’ (Guardian, 2011). This shows how WikiLeaks can affect people’s views on organisations, for example the US military. Another interesting point raised is that; "When you gather intelligence in such an unintelligent way; if for example you sweep people up who you know are innocent, and it is in these documents; and then mistreat them horribly, you are not going to get reliable intelligence. You are going to make yourself a lot of enemies." (Guardian, 2011). This conveys, in relation to the Guantanamo Bay files, that due to prisoners being held with little pertinent evidence the people who have sent the prisoners to Guantanamo Bay will now be held in very low regards.

The WikiLeaks site is not only having accusations made against them by leaking, supposedly, illegal files, but also creating hostility towards US military for mistakenly sending people to the prison (without sufficient evidence).

To be continued...