John Grisham’s Guantanamo Mystery Solved

U.S. Department of Defense

After learning from a Wall Street Journal reporter that Guantanamo guards had barred a defense lawyer from bringing two of his books to a detainee, author John Grisham called the offshore prison “a sad perversion of American justice,” and, in a New York Times op-ed published Sunday, elaborated on the “horrors” prisoners there experience. But those alleged deprivations no longer include the Grisham oeuvre. The Defense Department released the two rejected books, “The King of Torts” and “The Innocent Man,” to detainee Sufiyan Barhoumi after a query from the Journal. It was all “a misunderstanding by some junior staff of what constitutes permitted reading materials,” said Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Todd Breasseale. . . . .

Source: http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2013/08/13/john-grishams-guantanamo-mystery-solved/?mod=WSJBlog

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