Eric Saar’s book is a work of fiction. Even the publisher has acknowledge that Saar – like Newsweek – simply made shit up:

At pages 191-192, Inside the Wire: A Military Intelligence Soldier?s Eyewitness Account of Life at Guantanamo by Erik Saar and Viveca Novak, erroneously states that civilian interrogators hired through an army contract with CACI were in Guantanamo Bay. The book also describes the activities of two contract interrogators. CACI has unequivocally stated that it had no involvement in any interrogation operations at Guantanamo and that it had no relationship whatsoever with the civilian contract interrogators involved in the use of the interrogation techniques discussed in the book. The Penguin Press and the Authors acknowledge and regret the error. In addition, The Penguin Press and the Authors are taking a number of corrective actions, including inserting erratum slips in Penguin?s remaining copies of the book, providing erratum slips to Penguin?s accounts for insertion into books that have already been shipped, and advising media organizations that will be interviewing the authors of the error. Future printings will be corrected to address the error.

http://www.penguinputnam.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_1594200661,00.html

Saar is about as credible as Kitty Kelly.

If Newsweek is to regain any measure of credibility it must fire Thomas and Isikoff immediately.

I think Thomas and Isikoff should dropped off at a riot in Jalalabad without military protection.

From Dictionary.com …

Used as an intensive before a figurative expression.

Yes, Phantom Stranger, I really did mean literally.

“Before we start equating Gitmo with Abu Ghraib it might be a good idea to remember that more died because of this stupid story than have died in Gitmo or were said to have died because of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib.”

You are correct we should put this story in perspective, but you are misinformed on the facts.

108 people have died in U.S. custody in Iraq and Afghanistan. 150 sent out to be tortured in other countries. And a former Army Sgt. who did Guantanamo Bay interrogations 2002-03 details torture. http://www.booktv.org/feature/index.asp?segid=5282&schedID=362

For what it’s worth,I am not renewing my subscription to Newsweek and I cancelled my subscription to Time several years ago.

P.S. MSM schmucks, I am the last guy you want to loose, the right demographic your advertisers want. Middle aged, kids and lots and lots of disposable income.

In the first place how do we know that the senior military person in the Pentagon was the right person to comment on the subject. Not all senior military persons in the Pentagon are qualified to comment on all subjects. If he were not the right one, then he would either check the story with someone else and wait for them to get back to him or he would say no comment. If he was waiting for someone to get back to him, then it seems that Newsweek in their infinite wisdom decided that they had waited long enough and assumed that he agreed with the statement.

As to blaming the Muslims for the rioting, who are you to tell anyone how to run their religion. It is a well known fact (ask Salmon Rushdie) that for Muslims the Koran, any Koran, is the word of God as passed down to Mohammed and as such to do anything to desecrate that book is a crime punishable by death. The reporters (**spit**) and editors (**spit**) at Newsweek since they are reporting on this area of the world as experts should have known this. For them to publish what they did without having battened down the sources and double checked with the sources after that is tantamount to waving a red flag in front of a bull and they know this. That they went ahead and did so is a shame on them and they bear full responsibility for what happened.

You can tell us all day long that the Muslims should not have done this because it is only a book but to them it is central to their life and faith. You have absolutely no right to interfere in their religion just as you have no right to interfere in my religion as a Methodist or my friend’s religion as a Catholic. No matter what you think, it is not your business.