March 13, 2004
Camp X-Ray ... oh, the horror!
The U.K.'s Daily Mirror runs wild with a breathless, one-source story on the alleged horror of captivity for suspected terrorists at Gitmo.
A freed captive alleges treatment that would send Howard Stern careering toward voluntary imprisonment. Prostitutes said to stroke themselves were dangled in front of the more pious inmates.
Oh, and bad inmates had their shampoo taken away!
Does anyone believe Word One of this? It's corroborated by exactly ... nothing. When an interview reads like a parody of a paranoic, editors might want to think twice about running it. Oh wait, they paid perhaps $75,000 for this drivel. See 2nd-to-last item here, subhed "War heroes."
