Heather Cerveny Sergeant Heather Cerveny is a member of the United States Marine Corps , and a paralegal . Cerveny who submitted an affidavit describing boasts of abusive treatment meted out to detainees held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp s , in Cuba . Her claims were rejected by a military investigator and she was later accused of making a false statement . Press reports state Cerveny is 23 years old , was only assigned to assist in the defense of Guantanamo detainees in September , and that the incident she reported occurred on one of her visits to the base . The Department of Defense ' s Inspector General announced that another inquiry would be launched into detainee treatment , based on Cerveny ' s affidavit . Previous inquiries , like the Schmidt report concluded that abuse at the camps was degrading , but did not rise to the level of " inhumane " . Gag order . Muneer Ahmad , the civilian lawyer for Omar Khadr , reported that Cerveny , and her boss , Colby Vokey , Khadr ' s military lawyer , had been ordered not to speak to the media pending Marine chief defense counsel Col . Carol Joyce ' s review of Cerveny ' s claims . The report quotes a statement released by the Marines explaining that Col . Joyce : Basset report . Colonel Richard Basset was the officer assigned to investigate the allegations in Cerveny ' s affidavit . He returned from his investigation on November 15 , 2006 . The " Associated Press " quoted one of Basset ' s superiors , who said Basset : " " . . . interviewed guards and some detainees during a visit to the naval base in southeast Cuba . He also traveled around the U . S . to speak with guards who had left Guantanamo , " " The report was submitted by Basset on December 10 , 2006 . and the results made public in February , 2008 . The report recommended no disciplinary action against the five Army , and Navy men whom Cerveny accused in her affidavit as he asserted there was insufficient evidence to support Cerveny ' s claims . Based upon his findings through the investigation , Colonel Basset then accused Cerveny of filing false reports . On December 18 , 2008 " Fox News " , " MSNBC " and other media outlets published an " Associated Press " story based on previously classified portions of Basset ' s inquiry they had acquired through a successful Freedom of Information Act request . had determined one of the men Cerveny had named had been part of the riot squad that had left a GI with brain damage who had been asked to masquerade as a detainee who represented a threat for a training exercise . The previously classified portions of the inquiry reported that another of the men had acknowledged abusing captives . According to " Fox News " Vokey reacted to the new information , saying : " " the report shows the military ignored statements that undermined the sailors ' denials . " " " Fox News " quotes spokesman Colonel William Costello saying he had nothing to add to " " what we announced publicly almost two years ago . " " " Fox News " quoted Ben Wizner , of the American Civil Liberties Union , characterizing the original inquiry as " narrow " , and pointed out that the inquiry hadn ' t reported the men hadn ' t abused captives , merely that there was " insufficient evidence " that they had bragged about doing so to Cerveny .