The headline reads: Guantanamo Camp’s Chief Gets Promoted. Ahhhhhh I got news for the reporter who wrote that…..it’s not a camp. It’s a prison. Where people are abused. Where people are held for years without being charged. Where human rights are violated. So it figures they promoted the guy running the show.

From the Miami Herald:

The Pentagon is promoting the Navy admiral now running the prison camps at Guantnamo Bay, Cuba.

President Bush has formally nominated Rear Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr. to receive a second star, according to a Defense Department statement Friday.

In U.S. Navy terms, that means he goes from being rear admiral — lower half, to rear admiral — upper half, and has two stars.

Harris, who has run the offshore detention center through a turbulent era of suicides and the arrivals of CIA held captive Khalid Sheik Mohammed, is moving to Miami by summer.

He becomes operations chief of the U.S. Southern Command — the Pentagon division responsible for most military operations in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Pentagon has already assigned another one’star admiral to replace Harris. He is Rear Adm. Mark H. Buzby, who is now deputy director at the Navy’s expeditionary warfare division in Washington.

Buzby has served extensively in the Mediterranean and is a graduate of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.

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