Guantanamo Documents Open Window to Secret World

by Jackie Northam, NPR

The Pentagon's release of documents detailing the hearings of Guantanamo detainees has cracked open a window into the government's top-secret world. The 5,000 pages offer unedited transcripts that include names and stories from some of the prisoners at the base. The documents were released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by the Associated Press.

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• Morning Edition, March 7, 2006