Rumsfeld Bars U.N. Visits With Detainees
Spurning a request by U.N. human rights investigators, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said the United States would not allow them to meet with detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility for terrorism suspects.
Rumsfeld said the government would not change its policy of giving such access to prisoners at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, only to the International Committee of the Red Cross, a neutral body that keeps its findings confidential.
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