User:Geo Swan/Guantanamo/Brook DeWalt

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Brook DeWalt is an officer in the United States Navy currently serving as a spokesman at the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.

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In March 2009 Ahmed Zaid Salim Zuhair claimed he was being abused while he was being force-fed, and tried to negotiate an end to the harsh conditions he was protesting. On March 18 2009 Dewalt responded to Zuhair by telling the press that there were currently 34 captives being force-fed.

On March 31 2009 DeWalt responded to press curiousity over controversial comments Miss Universe and Miss USA made following their tour of Guantanamo.

In January 2009 Dewalt was described as "DoD's director of new media".

In a December 11, 2009, interview Dewalt acknowledged, for the first time, that Guantanamo interrogators were continuing to make occasional use of interrogation techniques from Appendix M of the Field Guide to Interrogation. According to psychologist and human rights expert Jeffrey Kaye Appendix M described the replacement for what had previously been known as "[[enhanced interrogation techniques".

In 2012 DeWalt was serving on the staff of General John R. Allen, in charge of operations in Afghanistan, when an attack on FOB Salerno stirred speculation that US forces would openly launch attacks within Pakistan. It was DeWalt's responsibility to officially deny that Allen was going to escalate to open attacks.

On April 5, 2017, Strategic Command tweet of a link to an article on the controversial Breitbart website stirred controversy. Gizmodo magazine requested emails associated with the tweet, and published excerpts of DeWalt's communication with General John Hyten. Gizmodo voiced the conclusion that the staff at Strategic Command, including DeWalt, did not understand how to use twitter, because every reference in the documents referred to their tweet as a retweet.