The title of a recently released Fox News article is "Newly Released Documents Document Guantanamo Facility's Chaotic Early Years". The most revealing word in the title is obviously "Chaotic". This suggests that there were few, if any, rules at Guantanamo during the Bush years and if there were any rules, they weren't properly/effectively enforced/implemented.

The subtitle is: "The documents and memos were turned over to the American Civil Liberties Union as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit". This means that more Bush administration officials could be in legal hot water over their roles in the abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo.

The first sentence of this article is "Newly released Defense Department documents and memos about the first years of operation of the jail at the US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba portray a CHAOTIC and SOMETIMES VIOLENT OPERATION that its own commanders described as DYSFUNCTIONAL". "chaotic", "sometimes violent operation" and "dysfunctional" are pretty ugly words.

According to Amir Singh, an attorney for American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) staff, "These documents provide further evidence of the widespread and systemic abuse of prisoners conducted at Guantanamo Bay and other overseas locations (e.g. Abu Ghraib in Afghanistan). They further underscore the need for a Congressional select committee to further examine the roots of the torture program as well as an independent prosecutor to investigate issues of criminal responsibility". A "congressional select committee" takes time to set up and an independent prosecutor must be paid and we are running up trillions of dollars in debt at the moment.

According to Fox, "One of the released documents, from 2005, is the statement of one of the first commanders of Guantanamo to another general who was investigating prisoner abuse lodged by the FBI...Dunleavy (who was commander of Guantanamo back in 2002 and has since retired) described what he saw: a lack of security and control over detainees who would RIOT AND TURNED ITEMS LIKE SPOONS AND WELDING RODS INTO WEAPONS". He denounced those prisoners' interrogators as "virtually inexperienced" and slammed military linguists as being "useless". The phrase "virtually inexperienced" carries negative connotations and "useless" is even more negative. This reinforces the fact that there was virtually no sense of order at Guantanamo and that the guards had virtually no control over the inmates at the prison.

Dunleavy added that he was told that "it was a commonsense way to do business" and "I got my marching orders from THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES" after initially being told to report to Southern Command and the president at the time of the Abu Ghraib scandal was...George W. Bush.

Dunleavy also argued that "The mission was to get intelligence to prevent another 9/11", but this doesn't justify torture. Human rights can't be taken away.

There are more graphic details. One interrogator was dismissed after he "physically manhandled" a detainee, reportedly by "belting and handcuffing him to an eyebolt on the floor". This is horrific and unacceptable.

An FBI agent was kicked out after "he went across a desk at a detainee AFTER THE DETAINEE THREATENED TO KILL HIS FAMILY". Here's an example where we may have to take the side of the interrogator because IT'S VERY POSSIBLE that people captured in a war zone are violent and dangerous to do something like killing a soldier's entire family.

Someone labelled "the best interrogator" "was removed and another prosecuted after it became clear HE DRANK IN HIS ROOM EVERY NIGHT". This is a character and integrity question/issue. Military personnel are supposed to be beyond reproach, but more often than not they go out after completing their duties and do crazy things.

"Chaining a detainee in a fetal position "was not a normal procedure", but was done anyway.

According to Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller who commanded Guantanamo from late 2002 until March, 2004, some ways of extractiong information out of prisoners "went beyond what I felt comfortable with".

Finally, according to Matthew Waxman, the former director of detainee affairs at the Pentagon, in an October, 2004 memo, "Please assure that their detainees HAVE NEVER BEEN SUBJECTED TO TORTURE OR SYSTEMATIC ABUSE. Additionally, while he has some mental health issues, THESE ARE NOT THE RESULT OF ANY PHYSICAL ABUSE AT GUANTANAMO". This is obviously a lie and reinforces the Bush administration's strategy for dealing with mistakes: COVER THEM UP AND PRETEND THAT THESE THINGS NEVER HAPPENED.