Justice Dept. Opens Inquiry Into Abuse of U.S. Detainees

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 - The Justice Department has opened a wide-ranging investigation into reports from the Federal Bureau of Investigation about the military's use of coercive and abusive tactics against prisoners held in American custody at Guantánamo Bay and in Iraq, officials said on Thursday.

The investigation, initiated recently by the inspector general at the Justice Department, will examine not only how reports of abuse witnessed by F.B.I. agents at the American base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and in Iraq were handled, but also whether bureau agents themselves took part in any improper methods of interrogation at the prisons, which are run by the military.

Investigators "want to look at what happened to these complaints, and also did F.B.I. agents participate in the abuse?" said a senior law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity. "Were they more than simply witnesses?"

The Justice Department inquiry parallels a separate investigation by the military into the tactics used by its interrogators at Guantánamo.
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Some bureau personnel reported their deep concerns about the tactics to senior agency personnel, including the director, Robert S. Mueller III. One focus of the inspector general's inquiry will be to determine how those internal concerns were handled within the agency and whether they were relayed to proper authorities in the military and elsewhere in the administration.

http://nytimes.com/2005/01/14/politics/14detain.html

[librechik]

1. Shocking revelation: detainees tied up

with miles of red tape

watch this get witewashed like all the other "investigations" the exec branch controls.

We are so screwed.

[Elidor]

2. Senor Gonzalez's chickens are coming home early to roost

Couldn't happen to a nicer asshole. Nothing like appointing an AG who already has shit dripping off his face, just in case anyone might mistake the foulest piece of human excrement yet added to the Bush cabal for anything remotely resembling a human being.