Conditions at Gitmo

Human Rights Watch has compiled the accounts of former Gitmo detainees on the conditions surrounding their detention. See http://hrw.org/backgrounder/usa/gitmo1004/gitmo1004.pdf. The accounts are not as gruesome as one could imagine--if being beaten and pepper-sprayed by the Executive does not abhore the senses these days . Post 9/11 and well into the war on terror, has our standards of humanity been mitigated by national security exigencies?
Here is one account:
"He must have been about 240 ponds in weight. … Once he had done that the others came in and were punching and kicking Jumah. While they were doing that the female officer then came in and was kicking his stomach. Jumah had had an operation and had metal rods in his stomach clamped together in the operation. … the MP Sergeant … was punching him. He grabbed his head with one hand and with the other hand punched him repeatedly in the face. His nose was broken. He pushed his face and he smashed it into the concrete floor. All of this should be on video; there was blood everywhere. When they took him out they hosed the cell down and the water ran red with blood. We all saw it."

Amnesty International has also reported on, inter alia, Jumah al-Dossari, the Gitmo detainee victim described above.