Gitmo Underwear Scandal Oh My God, close the place, let them all go, not an Underwear Scandal........

Doesn't the U.S. Navy have better things to do with it's time?

Have we really got nothing better to investigate than Gitmo's underwear!!! Please ....... we have other vital issues that need our attention. This is definetly not one of them.

Freddie,

While I appreciate your tongue-in-cheek satire, I can understand why the investigation is being pursued with all seriousness. Until they know how these got into a supposedly high security facility, the question nibbling at the back of some minds has to be: "What else has gotten in here that we don't know about?" If my troops were stationed there, not knowing the answer to these questions would be keeping me up at night.

Who gives a rats %$& about underwear?

Just as soon as you introduced the waterboarding here comes the fashion statement.

well soak my drawers! what is this world coming to? it's difficult enough to justify holding these detainees for so long without evidence, without having to explain their taste in briefs. I thought they lived in cages you could see into.

""The truth? You couldn't handle the truth.......""

Jack

Why do we care?

I wonder if the US Govt has questioned the brand and quality of Osama bin Laden's underwear?? Hmmmmm..I wonder if he prefers boxers over the modest Y front jockey shorts?? I can't imagine a man of Osama ever considering Speedos...

I think that a responsible journalist would mention the fact that the attorney has not been allowed to see his client in more than a year & could not have possibly recently smuggled him anything, which is included in the letter you quote other parts of.
The fact that Under Armour briefs are primarily marketed to US military personnel, many of whom have seen the prisoner a lot more recently than his lawyers, might also make it into this story if it were being written by a real journalist for a serious news outlet.
Clearly, as commenter Walker Evans notes above, it is a potentially serious matter that persons deemed so dangerous that all legal rights must be denied them are able to obtain contraband in an ultra-high security military prison; the fact that the US military chooses to approach this serious issue by making clearly frivilous accusations against attorneys who haven't seen the man in over a year, rather than investigating the personnel who see him every day & are highly likely to be Under Armour wearers (it isn't as if he were found wearing wingtips or tasseled loafers, after all) is again the sort of thing that might interest a real journalist working for a serious news outlet.

We don't care about underwear. We DO care about unauthorized stuff getting into prisons - like knives, cyanide pills, etc. Don't tell me you don't get that, people? You don't have to be a fan (or foe) of Gitmo to understand this - it's just common sense. Duh!

Who really cares?? Can you possibly do your job and get to the real news? Wow, underwear, big freaking deal!

Given the history of military behavior at "Gitmo" and related sites, I would bet that some military interrogator gave the speedo as a manner of suggestion that the detainee SHOULD go for a swim in the toilet - and that the Under Armour briefs were meant as a threat upon the recipient's private parts. The Commander should have addressed his remarks to himself, to those under his command, and to the "intelligence" service(s) which have had contact with the detainees. I'll bet this letter simply exposes continuing abuse of "detainees" under military control.

This investigation is an attempt to find who is ahem "supporting" the terrorists!

wow, it's amazing that of all the things that the military needs to get done, they choose to investigate the poor criminals' underwear, while on the other hand, they might have people smuggling drugs across the border. are they really that bored?

Well its better than them wearing white thongs, who knows who has worn them. These guys are dirtbags - the worst. The military are not going to bring Mother Teresa to Guantanamo. They are friendly with terrorists to say the least. For all I care they can rot in prison. No doubt some "friendly" visitor brought them in. As many people that want to "hug" these murders they probably have hundreds of suspects who have visited them.

Who gives a... I don't

LOL, I'm going to take a wild guess here and say that the underwear was brought in by soldiers working there. For what reason, who knows? Maybe a "gift" to try to get someone to spill the beans on something. This really is about as dopey as the time I was called down to the office in Jr.HS, and grilled about why I tossed my lunch into the trash, and went to the restaurant nearby. When they called my mother to let her know I didn't eat the lunch that I brought, she just asked, "Don't you people have better things to do than worry about this kind of "stuff"? Apparently not. Sounds like the people in the Navy need a life too.

Looks like Dept of Homeland Security will have to conduct a (you guessed it)
PANTY RAID!!!!