Apart from the imprisoning without trial etc etc.
I suppose the Pentagon has never heard of construction warranties?
The information is particularly relevant now because the Southern Command, the military entity that controls Guantanamo, is seeking $49 million to replace the eight-year-old facility, which apparently was built improperly and is suffering from serious structural defects, including a cracked foundation.
Surely the original builder should be constrained to put right their defective work?
Not one bit of it as has been seen in Iraq and Afghanistan that the punishment for sloppy work was even more Pentagon contracts. Therefore is it any wonder that:
The Pentagon has refused to say who originally undertook the work, and its responses to Rosenberg's FOIA would indicate that it has no record of a construction contract or bidding document for the facility.
Why isn't the talibangelical party all over this like a wet blanket? You know the Party that trumpets small government and hates inefficiencies? Too busy screaming Benghazi or just scared of their sponsors?
That great black hole that is the Pentagon budget, with all its extreme inefficiencies and downright ineptitude is a sacred cow for our elected government, even if they can't write basic construction contracts correctly.
Hecker also said the document made reference to a number of people "at the military rank of colonel or below or the civilian level of GS-15 or below" who might suffer "annoyance or harassment in their private lives" if their connection to Guantanamo or the Office of Detainee Policy were to become known. That privacy concern also made the document exempt from disclosure, she claimed.
We have a cowboy builder, but, but it will be a security risk if we name these slovenly builders because the incompetent people who organized it might also be named. Oh, sweet pearl clutch.
Ye gawds, for all the work we have done on our Brittany Longhouse we have written warranties that go from 15 to 50 years. If they say but, but; you bet I will not only name them but sue them to boot.
Dear elected officials, it might go a small way to improving how the nation perceives your competence in running the country if you could just for once seem able to organize a piss up in a brewery, or make a mojito in Cuba.