Last night, Detainee 063 received its first real amount of attention, thanks to an appearance at Kottke and from there on Metafilter.
It’s been interesting to see the feedback, which has led me to want to clarify a few things. There is now a link on the front page so that anyone visiting the site for the first time can see all previous entries arranged from oldest to most recent. And, although it’s still a work in progress, I’ve begun to put together a small reading list for anybody who wants to find out more about the context of the interrogation, including the official context that led to the approval of the harsh interrogation techniques used on Al-Qahtani and other inmates at Guantanamo.
If anyone has any more suggestions or any comments, please do contact me.
Unfortunately, the log is absolutely genuine (the question was asked in the Metafilter comments). It was obtained by Time Magazine in the summer of 2005 and published in full to their website in 2006, and is now freely available there and elsewhere on the internet.
By republishing the log in this manner, this site is intended to draw attention to it at a time when forgetting the abuses committed at Guantanamo and elsewhere is very much in fashion, where the hope is increasingly that this stain on America and the world’s conscience will just fade and disappear.
It is also meant to make readers re-examine what they believe constitutes torture.