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Gitmo officials describe progress
By USA Today
Published: 12/12/2008

GUANTANAMO BAY - Any basic Internet search of Guantanamo Bay returns a flood of images of blindfolded detainees in orange jumpsuits housed in outdoor cages. That irks the military officials who run the jails on this military base. The cages, known as Camp X-Ray, haven't housed prisoners in six years, they said.

They like to describe their new, state-of-the-art detention facilities that have cost more than $400 million to build and staff in terms more suited to summer camp than prisons. Camp X-Ray "still is pushed out to the world as the current conditions at Guantanamo, but nothing could be further from the truth," said Rear Adm. David Thomas, the camps' commander. Read more.

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