NYT: Newly Released Reports Show Early Concern on Prison Abuse

[Osamasux]

By KATE ZERNIKE

Published: January 6, 2005

In late 2002, more than a year before a whistle-blower slipped military investigators the graphic photographs that would set off the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, an F.B.I. agent at the American detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, sent a colleague an e-mail message complaining about the military's "coercive tactics" with detainees, documents released yesterday show.

"You won't believe it!" the agent wrote.

Two years later, the frustration among F.B.I. agents had grown. Another agent sent a colleague an e-mail message saying he had seen reports that a general from Guantánamo had gone to Abu Ghraib to "Gitmo-ize" it. "If this refers to intell gathering as I suspect," he wrote, according to the documents, "it suggests he has continued to support interrogation strategies we not only advised against, but questioned in terms of effectiveness."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/06/politics/06abuse.html?hp&ex=1104987600&en=93d6bf6511daecc5&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[two gun sid]

1. You mean DOD lied?

Why am I not surprised? The people who authorized this need to be tried as war criminal.