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Documents show FBI questioned Guantanamo interrogation tactics

WASHINGTON (AFP) - FBI officials raised repeated objections to "aggressive interrogation tactics" at the US "war on terror" prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, including some they said were approved at high levels of the Defense Department, documents show.

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"As it relates to (redacted) and (redacted) the techniques employed against them in the interrogation process were, based on numerous inquiries I made, in addition to my personal review of the DoD interrogation plans, approved by the Deputy Secretary of Defense."

The deputy defense secretary at the time was Paul Wolfowitz, now head of the World Bank.

Another message sent minutes later from an unidentified sender to FBI officials,referred to US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

"Based on Rumsfeld's public statements, DoD is against hooding prisoners, threats of violence and techniques meant to humiliating (sic) detainees (there is a list of these I have seen)," it said.

"I know these techniques were approved at high levels w/in DoD and used on (redacted) and (redacted)," it said.

The documents were released in December 2004 but in heavily censored form. The American Civil Liberties Union then took the FBI to court, gaining release of the current version with newly uncensored passages.



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I posted this because it is now making mainstream news. Related to this discussion here:

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1. Files show military rebuffs FBI Guantanamo worries

FBI agents accused U.S. military personnel at the Guantanamo prison of using illegal "aggressive interrogation tactics" on detainees but senior military officials rejected FBI concerns, documents made public on Thursday showed.
The FBI documents, released by the American Civil Liberties Union after being obtained under a court order, further exposed the rift between the agency and the Pentagon over treatment of foreign terrorism suspects imprisoned at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The FBI said the military's techniques, which involved homosexual pornographic movies, loud music and the Israeli flag, not only were illegal but were ineffective. Maj. Michael Shavers, a Pentagon spokesman, said 12 major investigations have found that no Pentagon policy "ever encouraged or condoned abuse of detainees at Guantanamo" and that "the Department of Defence is treating and will continue to treat all of the individuals detained at Guantanamo humanely."

"This is another example of recycling old information," Shavers said. The United States has faced international criticism over treatment of detainees at the Guantanamo base and in Iraq and Afghanistan. An FBI agent described in one document witnessing two military investigators at Guantanamo interrogating a detainee while showing him homosexual pornography movies and using a strobe light in the room.

The agent said military interrogators routinely masqueraded as FBI agents while subjecting detainees to interrogations lasting 16 to 18 hours using tactics such as wrapping them in the Israeli flag and bombarding them with constant loud music. FBI agents expressed concern to agency officials in a May 30, 2003, memo about the actions of military interrogators and the rejection of the agents' concerns by the Guantanamo prison commander at the time, Army Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller.

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=6499312&cKey=1140733221000

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2. Yep - Europe is talking about it now. - thank you - n/t

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5. FBI objected to aggressive methods at Guantanamo

From the Sydney Morning Herald...

FBI officials who were interrogating terrorism suspects at the Guantanamo Bay prison in 2002 and 2003 strenuously objected to aggressive techniques the military was using and believed they could be illegal, according to newly released FBI memos.

The agents wrote in memos and emails that they were at odds with interrogators working for a Defence Intelligence Agency human intelligence (Humint) group and with guidance from senior Pentagon officials.

The agents also repeatedly expressed their concerns to the senior officer at the base, Major-General Geoffrey Miller, and argued that the FBI-approved methods were more effective.

One FBI agent wrote to FBI officials in May 2003: "Although Miller acknowledged positive aspects of this approach, it was apparent that he favoured Defence Humint Service's interrogation methods, despite FBI claims that such methods could easily result in the elicitation of unreliable and legally inadmissible information."

General Miller later travelled to Iraq and oversaw all detention operations there.

http://smh.com.au/news/world/fbi-objected-to-aggressive-methods-at-guantanamo/2006/02/24/1140670261945.html