We looked at the photos together and agreed that this was something special - the kind of FOIA return that does not end a reporting task, but rather begins one. I explained what I had to Marisa Schwartz Taylor, a photography editor for The Times in Washington. But other things puzzled me and required digging. Some of what I saw in those images of the first year, which are published in The Times, I understood because I had been reporting at the base then.
#THE TROVE DOWN ZIP FILE#
A zip file arrived in my email and photos of men in orange uniforms splashed onto my computer screen.
Then one day earlier this year, an archivist sent word that some material had already been declassified.
#THE TROVE DOWN SERIES#
I submitted a series of requests under the Freedom of Information Act, followed up with calls and emails and in time learned of various collections with Guantánamo material, much of it classified. Others were certain some photos had landed at the National Archives, and that turned out to be true. Some people pointed me to the Library of Congress. One office in the Department of Defense sent me to another. On a winter day in Washington, the hunt for those images began. Some public reactions were scathing.Īnd nearly 20 years later, I was learning that many more photos from that time had been sent from Guantánamo to the Pentagon. Space Force: The fledgling military branch, which has frequently been the butt of jokes, dropped an official song extolling the force’s celestial mission.airstrikes, the Pentagon announced changes aimed at reducing risks to noncombatants in its military operations. Civilian Harm: Following reports of civilian deaths from U.S.high schools were accused of sexually abusing their students. Sexual Abuse: Pentagon officials acknowledged that they had failed to adequately supervise the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, after dozens of military veterans who taught in U.S.A Culture of Brutality: The Navy SEALs’ punishing selection course has come under new scrutiny after a sailor’s death exposed illicit drug use and other problems.To his dismay, he spotted military photographers down on the airstrip, the place he wanted to be. Nearby, my colleague from The Miami Herald, the photographer Tim Chapman, paced around our vantage spot in frustration - he had not been allowed to bring his cameras to document the moment. I was among a group of journalists who were allowed to watch from a rise above the airstrip as the prisoners were led off a steel gray cargo plane - manacled, masked and in matching orange uniforms. I thought back to the day the first prisoners arrived from Afghanistan at this remote base, on Jan. And they were definitely not meant for the public to see. Rumsfeld, the defense secretary who took a personal day-to-day interest in the detention center. The pictures had been taken for senior leaders at the Pentagon - especially for Donald H. The military photographers spent months documenting the goings-on at Guantánamo Bay in the first year after the attacks of Sept. Somewhere inside the Pentagon was a trove of pictures taken by photographers from the elite Combat Camera unit, someone who had worked at the prison told me last year. detention operations here, in 2002, started out with a tip. GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba - Like so many articles, our project in Sunday’s newspaper on the once-secret Pentagon photos from the earliest days of U.S.
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