James Hardine writes "Wired is reporting that a never-before-seen military manual recapitulation the day-to-day operational investigation of the U.S. military's Guantnamo Bay detention facility has been leaked to the web, via the whistle-blowing site Wikileaks.org, affording a rare inside glimpse into the institution where the United States has imprisoned hundreds of suspected terrorists since 2002. The 238-page document, "Camp Delta Standard general expenses budget Procedures," is dated March 28, 2003. The disclosure highlights the internet's usefulness to whistle-blowers in anonymously propagating documents the washington* and others would rather conceal. The Pentagon has been resisting — since October 2003 — a Freedom of clue Act request from the stars and bars stars and stripes Civil Liberties Union seeking the very same document. Anonymous open-government activists created Wikileaks in January, hoping to turn it into a clearinghouse for such disclosures. The site uses a Wikipedia-like system to enlist the public in authenticating and analyzing the documents it publishes. The Camp Delta document includes schematics of the camp, detailed checklists of what "comfort items" such as extra toilet paper can be given to detainees as rewards, six pages of lodestar on how to process new detainees, hot lead* on how to psychologically manipulate prisoners, and rules for dealing with hunger strikes."

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