Guantanamo's crumbling, super-secret Camp 7 is kaput, Southcom announces. (The high-value ex-CIA detainees it housed, including 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Muhammed, have been transferred to Camp 5.)/1 southcom.mil/News/PressRele… 
This article in December, a joint effort by @carolrosenberg, @EricSchmittNYT and myself, first put forward the chatter that closing Camp 7 and consolidating the detainee population in the 5/6 space was in the works. /2 nytimes.com/2020/12/15/us/…
In honor of Camp 7's departure from current-events relevance, let me one last time post this link to what satellite imagery and rare fragments of discussion in declassified documents etc revealed about its nature. /end charliesavage.com/what-google-ea…
Here is @carolrosenberg 's authoritative take. nytimes.com/2021/04/04/us/…
I have updated my blog page about satellite imagery and Gitmo's now-shuttered secret Camp 7 in light of an insight gleaned from older Google Earth images. (Thanks to @Cryptome_org and @jnievele for showing me how to access them.)/1 charliesavage.com/what-google-ea…
Specifically, we can see that the facility we know as Camp 7 was built between April 2003 and November 2004, meaning it didn't start off being called 7. (5 was being built at the same time, and there was not yet a 6.) /2
We know from the Senate torture report that the CIA held a small number of its high-value/black-site detainees at Gitmo from September 2003 to April 2004. It held them in two detention sites codenamed MAROON and INDIGO, and there may also have been a third there named RED./3
It seems reasonable to suspect that Camp 7 started either a) as MAROON or INDIGO, or b) as RED, which was being built to consolidate CIA detainees before the agency changed plans and got out of Gitmo (bc the Supreme Court was weighing giving habeas rights to detainees there.)/end
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