Contraband at JTF-GTMO

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Colonel John Bogdan, the de-facto warden of the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba, instituted controversial genital searches, which he claimed were necessary to intercept the exchange of contraband at JTF-GTMO.[1]

References

  1. Elspeth Reeve (2013-07-17). "Who Is Giving the Guantanamo Detainees Contraband?". Atlantic Wire. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/07/who-giving-guantanamo-detainees-contraband/67284/. Retrieved 2013-07-19. "The military says it needs the genital searches—which a federal judge halted last week, an order the Justice Department asked the judge to put on hold late Tuesday night — because it's says detainees will smuggle contraband in their crotches. That stuff can be used to injure guards or other detainees, or commit suicide, the government says. Where do the detainees get it?"