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New Documents Provide Further Evidence That Senior Officials Approved
Abuse of Prisoners at Guantánamo (2/23/2006)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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FBI Memorandum Details Guantánamo Commander’s Repeated Refusal to
Abandon Illegal and Ineffective Interrogation Techniques
NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union today released newly
obtained documents showing that senior Defense Department officials
approved aggressive interrogation techniques that Federal Bureau of
Investigation agents deemed abusive, ineffective and unlawful.
“We now possess overwhelming evidence that political and military
leaders endorsed interrogation methods that violate both domestic and
international law,” said Jameel Jaffer, an attorney with the ACLU.
“It is entirely unacceptable that no senior official has been held
accountable.” 
Included in today’s release is a memorandum prepared by FBI personnel
on May 30, 2003, which supplies a detailed discussion of tensions
between FBI and Defense Department personnel stationed at Guantánamo
in late 2002.  According to the memo, Defense Department interrogators
were encouraged by their superiors to “use aggressive interrogation
tactics” that FBI agents believed were “of questionable effectiveness
and subject to uncertain interpretation based on law and regulation.”
The May 2003 memo specifically names Maj. Gen. Geoffrey D. Miller, who
was then Commander of Joint Task Force-Guantánamo, as having favored
interrogation methods that FBI agents believed “could easily result in
the elicitation of unreliable and legally inadmissible information.”
The memo states that FBI personnel brought their concerns to the
attention of senior Defense Department personnel but that their
concerns were brushed aside.
Other documents released by the ACLU today provide more evidence that
abusive interrogation methods used at Guantánamo were endorsed by
senior officials.  One FBI e-mail, dated May 5, 2004, states that
“hooding prisoners, threats of violence, and techniques meant to
humiliate detainees” were “approved at high levels w/in DoD.”  Another
FBI e-mail states that certain techniques alleged to be abusive by
some FBI agents were “approved by the Deputy Secretary of Defense.”
Today's release comes only days after the release by the New Yorker
magazine of a memorandum from Alberto Mora, General Counsel of the
United States Navy, describing Mora's unsuccessful efforts in late
2002 and early 2003 to convince the Pentagon to renounce the abuse of
prisoners at Guantánamo.  Collectively, the Mora memorandum and the
documents released by the ACLU today show conclusively that Pentagon
officials at the highest levels authorized the abuse of prisoners and
persisted in their endorsement of unlawful interrogation methods even
after FBI and Navy personnel objected to those methods orally and in
writing.
Still other documents released today by the ACLU provide FBI agents’
descriptions of interrogations they witnessed at Guantánamo.  One such
document states: “Last evening I went to observe an interview of
REDACTED with REDACTED.  The adjoining room, observable from the
monitoring booth, was occupied by 2 DHS investigators showing a
detainee homosexual porn movies and using a strobe light in the room.
We moved our interview to a different room.  We’ve heard that DHS
interrogators routinely identify themselves as FBI agents and then
interrogate a detainee for 16-18 hours using tactics as described
above and others (wrapping in Israeli flag, constant loud music,
cranking the A/C down, etc.)  The next time a real Agent tries to talk
to that guy, you can imagine the result.”
While some of the documents indicate that FBI personnel objected to
Defense Department interrogation policies at Guantánamo, others raise
serious questions about the FBI’s own policies – and particularly
about the agency’s response to the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
In one e-mail, dated Jan. 24, 2004, the FBI’s on scene commander in
Baghdad discusses whether the FBI should investigate the abuse or
whether it should leave the task to military investigators.  The
e-mail, which was sent to senior FBI officials at FBI headquarters,
advises that the FBI should decline to investigate.  “We need to
maintain good will and relations with those operating the prison,” the
e-mail states.  “Our involvement in the investigation of the alleged
abuse might harm our liaison.” 
The FBI documents released today were previously released to the ACLU
on December 15, 2004, with most of their contents redacted.  The
less-redacted versions released by the ACLU today were made available
by the FBI after the ACLU challenged the FBI’s redactions in court.
The ACLU’s challenge to other redactions in FBI documents is pending
before the United States District Court for the Southern District of
New York.  A hearing has been scheduled for April 5.
“More than two years after we filed our Freedom of Information Act
request, the FBI continues to withhold documents that the public
clearly has a right to see,” said Jaffer.  “As we’ve been saying from
the outset, the public has a right to know what the government’s
policies were and who put them in place.”
In a related case, the ACLU yesterday filed a friend-of-the-court
brief supporting the appeal of Qassim v. Bush which argues that two
detainees who have been cleared of charges by the Guantánamo tribunal,
whose continued military detention has been declared unlawful by a
federal court and who cannot be repatriated, are legally entitled to
be released under appropriate conditions of supervision.
Today’s documents come in response to a Freedom of Information Act
request 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. 
The FOIA lawsuit is being handled by Lawrence Lustberg and Megan Lewis
of the New Jersey-based law firm Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger &
Vecchione, P.C. Other attorneys in the case are Jaffer, Amrit Singh,
and Judy Rabinovitz of the ACLU; Arthur Eisenberg and Beth Haroules of
the NYCLU; and Barbara Olshansky of the Center for Constitutional
Rights.
To date, more than 90,000 pages of government documents have been
released in response to the ACLU's Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
The ACLU has been posting these documents online at
www.aclu.org/torturefoia
The friend-of-the-court brief in Qassim v. Bush is available online at
www.aclu.org/intlhumanrights/gen/24248lgl20060223.html
The documents released today are available online at
http://action.aclu.org/torturefoia/released/022306/

 accountable.”
Alcune di queste cose erano gia' state rese note da fonti anonime un anno fa.
E irrise come mancanti di prove dal noto TdC, e quasi-Cretino dell'Anno.
I maiali come lui dovrebbero ritrovarsi  assieme ai responsabili delle 
torture in un ampia vasca  in modo essere sottoposti dalla popolazione 
ai lanci di guano che si meritano.
Am.