While Guantanamo prisoners play, some still fret

The Pentagon's new Southern Command chief tours the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo, where enemy combatants are housed, and declares conditions are compatible with the Geneva Conventions.  That summarizes the visit of Navy Admiral James Stavridis.  Or does it?

It took Miami Herald writer Carol Rosenberg 18 paragraphs to wrap that up in a story that was fed by McClatchy Newspapers to other publications around the country for yesterday's (Sunday) editions.

Injecting a bit of "mystery" into the material was mention of the "high-value terrorism suspects who had recently been moved there from secret CIA custody."  Grumpy Editor points out everything the CIA does is hush-hush.  That's how the agency operates.  Thus, the word secret does not have to precede CIA.  Adding to "secretive doings" at the base, the writer was rightly nixed by the admiral in giving "specifics on where the latest arrivals are being kept and under what circumstances."

The writer may have found the answer to pinpointing the locations of the terrorism suspects in her own text.  The admiral, calling them "very, very dangerous terrorists," observed they are "playing soccer and exercising individually," adding he found them to be "a hearty bunch."

All this under a pleasant Caribbean sky where the Guantanamo temperature today (Monday) is expected to reach a delightful 90 degrees.