(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/121025-wikileaks-hmed-1121a.photoblog600.jpg)Michelle Shephard / Pool via Reuters fileThe flag over a war crimes courtroom in Camp Justice at US Naval Base Guantanamo Bay in Cuba on October 17, 2012, day three of pre-trial hearings for the five Guantanamo prisoners accused of orchestrating the 9/11.
By William Maclean, ReutersThe WikiLeaks website began publishing on Thursday what it said were more than 100 U.S. Defense Department files detailing military detention policies in camps in Iraq and at Guantanamo Bay in the years after the September 11 attacks on U.S. targets.
In a statement, WikiLeaks criticized regulations it said had led to abuse and impunity and urged human rights activists to use the documents, to be released over the next month, to research what it called "policies of unaccountability."
Follow @NBCNewsWorld (http://twitter.com/NBCNewsWorld)The statement quoted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as saying: "The 'Detainee Policies' (http://wikileaks.org/detaineepolicies/) show the anatomy of the beast that is post-9/11 detention, the carving out of a dark space where law and rights do not apply, where persons can be detained without a trace at the convenience of the U.S. Department of Defense."
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