{"id":1522,"date":"2004-12-06T23:10:03","date_gmt":"2004-12-07T06:10:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-12-06T23:10:03","modified_gmt":"2004-12-07T06:10:03","slug":"leaked-fbi-witnessed-gitmo-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/06\/leaked-fbi-witnessed-gitmo-torture\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaked: FBI witnessed Gitmo torture"},"content":{"rendered":"

FBI agents witnessed <\/a>“highly aggressive” interrogations and mistreatment of terror suspects at the US 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 US Justice Department official sent to the US army’s top criminal investigator.<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

One US Marine told an FBI observer that some interrogations led to prisoners “curling into a foetal position on the floor and crying in pain,” according to the letter dated July 14, 2004.<\/p>\n

Thomas Harrington, an FBI counterterrorism expert who led a team of investigators at Guantanamo Bay, wrote the letter to Major General Donald J Ryder, the army’s chief law enforcement officer who’s investigating abuses at US-run prisons in Afghanistan, Iraq and at Guantanamo.<\/p>\n

Harrington said FBI officials complained about the pattern of abusive techniques to top Defence Department attorneys in January 2003, and it appeared that nothing was done. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How many times can they point to “bad apples” and “isolated incidents”<\/a> before the people running this horror show are held accountable? How about holding the real<\/em> bad apples accountable:<\/p>\n

\"Applesup\"<\/center><\/p>\n

Bad apples courtesy of Tom Tomorrow<\/em><\/small><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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