Greg Djerejian reads the tea-leaves. My bet is that Gitmo will be closed within a year.
GULF STREAM: An emailer suggests one more pee possibility:
I gather from the photograph that the air vent is the grate on the lower left. Imagine if you will a soldier from inside walking to the nearest exit, not even stepping outside, he just props the door open slightly, he’s not even cognizant of the air vent, and he relieves himself. I can visualize the arc of the stream, he’s a kid, it’s hot in Guantanamo and he’s drinking lots of fluids, he pisses like a racehorse. It’s not an obvious truth but a strong gust of wind, a westerly, could have lifted his urine and splattered it across a detainee’s cell. Keep in mind, the detainee was probably situated as close to the vent as possible to take advantage of the breeze. And he, the detainee, like you, the slightly histrionic journalist, was incensed and viewed the splatter of piss as a deliberate insult. Word then spreads among the detainees. The easiest thing to do is to reassign the guard. What are you going to do to convince detainees it was an accident, wait for the winds to shift and try for a reenactment? Next time you’re in Aruba, take a piss into a headwind.
Okay. More plausible than the official version.
The Dish 