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A former Guantánamo Bay guard has joined forces with released detainees in Britain to expose the torture inflicted by interrogators at the camp…

Chris Arendt, from Michigan, joined the army shortly after September 11, aged 17, and was sent to work as a guard in Guantánamo two years later, in 2003. After becoming disillusioned with what he saw there, he left the army and joined the campaign group Iraq Veterans Against the War. “It was like sitting down with a bunch of brothers,” said Arendt about meeting a dozen former inmates in London yesterday. “It was really natural, a really organic fit.” He said he was held in immigration for seven hours before being allowed to enter Britain as officials were suspicious that he might try to settle in the UK…

Although a lawyer warned Arendt that he could be charged with treason, the former guard said he did not believe the US government would pursue him through the courts because Guantánamo had become so discredited…

Moazzam Begg, a former Guantánamo detainee who is travelling with Arendt, said the experience of being reunited with a former guard had been “truly unique … We embraced like brothers, like we knew one another.” He said that while the public had become familiar with the experiences of detainees, the guards’ stories were barely known.

I think we’re for a cottage industry after the abdication of King George and Emperor Dick – based essentially on replacing lies with truth, confirming the extent of crimes previously relegated to the category of war stories by the tame talking heads of American journalism.