will open an investigation into claims that a large and apparently disproportionate number of people like commander bill keebler, young and healthy people who have worked at guantanamo, or who have served in the military there, specifically as part of the military commissions, they are investigating what seems to be an unusually large number of those people getting diagnosed with very grave illnesses or dying from them. the center for constitutional rights has a number of lawyers who have served there. they say they have a list have more than 20 people krnls and military personnel, including a number of lawyers, who they say have become in their words, gravely ill after spending time living and working at guantanamo on the military commissions. the miami herald reports a lawyer in the navy reserve, a lawyer who work at guantanamo on one of the military commission bases there, this week filed a explain listing the name of seven military and civilian
has had to be closed down for a while, about two years ago, i believe in order to be remediated for toxic mold and asbestos issues. the place is covered with signs that say do not drink the water out of here under any circumstances on the taps. there are a lot of signs of problems. and the military is saying they are looking in to whether there are carcinogens. just that language shows there s an issue that needs to be taken seriously. the thing about guantanamo and overarching things no one thought it would be operating in this way for so long. the people there longest without i a break are the prisoners. i know guantanamo as a site is big, 40 or 50 square miles. is there a concern for the prisoners too. is that the same part of the base? there are different concerns. every prison in america is a health disaster with tuberculosis and other issues being common place. as a lawyer working in a prison,
personnel who have worked at the compound at guantanamo in recent years and who have since been diagnosed with cancer. the miami herald itself has started compiling its own list of cancer cases who have been diagnosed who work at the site. the specific part of base over the past seven years. the herald said they know of nine people, working age healthy people them say they know of nine people who have been diagnosed with cancer, lymphoma, brain cancer, and three people have died from cancer just in the last 13 months. he died this past friday. the defense lawyer, his funeral will be tomorrow. in january it was army robert kottel. he earn a bronze star. he had worked at the military
commissions at guantanamo. he died of cancer in january. he was 52. in june of last year, it was marine major joshua kirk. major kirk had been valedictorian of his high school class. he got a law degree at uva and then he worked at guantanamo. he died last year of cancer at the ripe old age of 35. 35 years old. and 44 years old. and 52 years old. and all these other serious illness and cancer diagnoses among these relatively young, healthy, age people. all of whom worked at the military commission site at guantanamo. what s going on here? most prisoners at guantanamo don t go on trial at all. a select few have been tried in this ad hoc military commission system that the bush administration invented and the obama administration has half hafrtdly kept going. it is a whole court system. a whole justice system invented just for this purpose. and it has a lot of problems. not the least is logistical.
and this is something that could be coincidence, it could be a random occurrence but it also could be very scary. the navy has announced that they will open an investigation into claims that a large and apparently disproportionate number of people like commander bill keebler, young and healthy people, who have worked at guantanamo, or who have served in the military there, specifically as part of the military commissions, they are investigating what seems to be an unusually large number of those people getting diagnosed with very grave illnesses or dying from them. the center for constitutional rights has a number of lawyers who have served there. they say they have a list have more than 20 people, citizens and military personnel, including a number of lawyers, who they say have become in their words, gravely ill after spending time living and working at guantanamo on the military commissions. the miami herald reports a lawyer in the navy reserve, a lawyer who work at guantanamo on one