![]() ![]() They consist of a wealth of important and previously undisclosed information, including health assessments, for example, and, in the cases of the majority of the 172 prisoners who are still held, photos (mostly for the first time ever)." ![]() These memoranda, known as Detainee Assessment Briefs (DABs), contain JTF-GTMO’s recommendations about whether the prisoners in question should continue to be held, or should be released (transferred to their home governments, or to other governments). ![]() In thousands of pages of documents dating from 2002 to 2008 and never seen before by members of the public or the media, the cases of the majority of the prisoners held at Guantánamo - 765 out of 779 in total - are described in detail in memoranda from JTF-GTMO, the Joint Task Force at Guantánamo Bay, to US Southern Command in Miami, Florida. "In its latest release of classified US documents, WikiLeaks is shining the light of truth on a notorious icon of the Bush administration’s "War on Terror" - the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, which opened on January 11, 2002, and remains open under President Obama, despite his promise to close the much-criticized facility within a year of taking office. For example, at its IAD77 data center, the document states that “Amazon is known as ‘Vandalay Industries’ on badges and all correspondence with building manager”." In some cases, Amazon uses pseudonyms to obscure its presence. More often, Amazon operates out of data centers owned by other companies with little indication that Amazon itself is based there too or runs its own data centers under less-identifiable subsidiaries such as VaData, Inc. While a few are publicly tied to Amazon, this is the exception rather than the norm. To accompany this document, WikiLeaks also created a map showing where Amazon’s data centers are located.Īmazon, which is the largest cloud provider, is notoriously secretive about the precise locations of its data centers. The document from late 2015 lists the addresses and some operational details of over one hundred data centers spread across fifteen cities in nine countries. But the former is an immediate threat to the politician themselves."AmazonAtlas: Today, 11 October 2018, WikiLeaks publishes a "Highly Confidential" internal document from the cloud computing provider Amazon. The latter is a long term threat to an influential campaign donor, true. That matters more to them, their staff, their allies, than whether SpaceX actually builds an orbital depot variant of a tanker or not. ![]() And doing so publicly is more important than doing it at all, because it requires an equally public response.īy hiding the magic word, you are telling people like Shelby that you are appropriately afraid of them. Career politicians will not tolerate that. If you ignore something that a politician has demanded, even when that demand itself doesn't have the power of law, you are telling them that you don't respect their power. Hence anything that undermines that perception of influence is treated as a direct personal threat to their real power. Or rather, it is the source of the actual power. The perception of influence, of power, is often more important than the actual power. From what I've seen, a lot of politics (local, national, international - hell, office) is driven by appearance over substance. ![]()
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