Bush Administration Trying to Hide Torture Documents

[struggle4progress]

ACLU Says Key Documents Are Being Withheld

Documents released by the American Civil Liberties Union show that an FBI investigation into the use of "aggressive" interrogation techniques at Guantanamo was sharply scaled back, and that records related to the FBI’s investigation are still being withheld. <snip>

These latest documents were released on the eve of the confirmation hearings of Attorney General-nominee Alberto Gonzales, author of the infamous memorandum that tried to provide legal justifications for the use of torture and described the Geneva Conventions as "quaint" and "obsolete." <snip>

The release of these documents follows a federal court order that directed the Defense Department and other government agencies to comply with a year-old request under the Freedom of Information Act filed by the ACLU, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Physicians for Human Rights, Veterans for Common Sense and Veterans for Peace. The New York Civil Liberties Union is co-counsel in the case. <snip>

For unknown reasons, Caproni declined further investigation of the abuses that she considered to follow approved DOD interrogation techniques. Instead, she focused only on those abuses that were not approved by even the DOD’s permissive rules. As a result, only nine reported incidents were tagged for follow-up investigation.. The ACLU has received no information about the follow-up investigation, and a final FBI report about the matter is apparently being withheld. <snip>

http://www.progress.org/2005/aclu48.htm

[signmike]

1. Funny, how they say it's all O.K., but

at the same time they're hiding it.

Not funny:haha

[struggle4progress]

2. They're all speaking with both branches of their tongues.