AP: FBI Letter Cites Guantanamo Abuse

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AP: FBI Letter Cites Guantanamo Abuse
12/06/04 18:46
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - FBI agents witnessed ``highly aggressive'' interrogations and mistreatment of terror suspects at the U.S. prison camp in Cuba starting in 2002 - more than a year before the prison abuse scandal broke in Iraq - according to a letter a senior Justice Department official sent to the Army's top criminal investigator.

In the letter obtained by The Associated Press, the FBI official suggested the Pentagon didn't act on FBI complaints about the incidents, including a female interrogator grabbing a detainee's genitals and bending back his thumbs, another where a prisoner was gagged with duct tape and a third where a dog was used to intimidate a detainee who later was thrown into isolation and showed signs of ``extreme psychological trauma.''

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Interesting that the FBI says that the Pentagon didn't act on FBI complaints....