FBI critical of army's methods in Cuba

[Judi Lynn]

FBI critical of army's methods in Cuba

By Neil A. Lewis The New York Times Wednesday, December 8, 2004


WASHINGTON A series of confidential memorandums from FBI officials shows that the bureau repeatedly criticized "aggressive interrogation practices" that its agents observed being used by military personnel at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
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Other memorandums were provided by the government in response to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. The memorandums show that relations between FBI agents and senior military officials at the detention facility grew heated as agents at Guantánamo objected to the interrogation techniques, arguing that they were not effective.
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An FBI official whose name was removed from a memorandum dated May 10 wrote that a sharp exchange of views occurred during a meeting with Major General Geoffrey Miller, then the commander of the detention facility at Guantánamo , and Major General Michael Dunleavey, who was in charge of the intelligence operation there.

"Both sides agreed that the bureau has its way of doing things and the DOD has their marching orders from SecDef," the memo said, using abbreviations for the Department of Defense and the secretary of defense. "Although the two techniques differed drastically, both generals believed they had a job to do."
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FBI's complaints about prisoner torture ignored
December 8, 2004

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FBI agents saw US soldiers mistreating terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2002 - more than a year before the prison abuse scandal broke in Iraq, a confidential letter from a senior counter-terrorism expert reveals.

Agents visiting the US naval base prison said they saw military and civilian interrogators using "highly aggressive" techniques to exact information from detainees captured in Afghanistan.

In one incident, a female interrogator reportedly bent a prisoner's thumbs back and "grabbed his genitals". In another, an FBI agent saw a detainee "gagged with duct tape" for refusing to stop chanting the Koran.

In a third episode, a prisoner was allegedly threatened with a dog and the man was placed in "intense isolation", for three months, causing him "extreme psychological trauma". He was "talking to nonexistent people, reporting hearing voices, crouching in a corner of the cell covered with a sheet for hours on end".
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/FBIs-complaints-about-prisoner-torture-ignored/2004/12/07/1102182296434.html

[AP]

1. Torture produces unreliable evidence. FBI probably got tired of chasing

leads that were produced by people who'd say anything and incriminate anyone (including the guy they bought a slurpy from at the Quik-E-Mart) just to get the DoD to stop the torture.