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A Staff Sergeant's Pursuit of the Truth About Guantanamo Bay
Simon & Schuster
January 2015
On Sale: January 20, 2015
Featuring: Joe Hickman
256 pages
ISBN: 1451650795
EAN: 9781451650792
Kindle: B005FLOEUG
Hardcover / e-Book
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The revelatory eyewitness account about GuantΓ‘namo Bayβdetainees murdered, a secret CIA facility for torture, and the US government cover upβby the Staff Sergeant who felt honor-bound to uncover it. Staff Sergeant Joe Hickman was a loyal member of the armed forces and a proud American patriot. For twenty years, he worked as a prison guard, a private investigator, and in the military, earning more than twenty commendations and awards. When he re-enlisted after 9/11, he served as a team leader and Sergeant of the Guard in GuantΓ‘namo Naval Base. From the moment he arrived at Camp Delta, something was amiss. The prisons were chaotic, detainees were abused, and Hickman uncovered by accident a secret facility he labeled βCamp No.β On June 9, 2006, the night Hickman was on duty, three prisoners died, supposed suicides, and Hickman knew something was seriously wrong. So began his epic search for the truth, an odyssey that would lead him to conclude that the US government was using GuantΓ‘namo not just as a prison, but as a training ground for interrogators to test advanced torture techniques. For the first time, Hickman details the inner workings of Camp Delta: the events surrounding the death of three prisoners, the orchestrated the cover-up, and the secret facility at the heart of it all. From his own eyewitness account, and a careful review of thousands of documents, he deconstructs the governmentβs account of what happened and proves that the military not only tortured prisoners, but lied about their deaths. By revealing GuantΓ‘namoβs true nature, Sergeant Hickman shows us why the prison has been so difficult to close. This book opens an important window onto government overreach, secrecy, and one manβs principled search for the truth.
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