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Thursday, February 23, 2006

Quacks like torture

Knight Ridder:

WASHINGTON - Military interrogators posing as FBI agents at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, wrapped terrorism suspects in an Israeli flag and forced them to watch homosexual pornography under strobe lights during interrogation sessions that lasted as long as 18 hours, according to one of a batch of FBI memos released Thursday.
FBI agents working at the prison complained about the military interrogators' techniques in e-mails to their superiors from 2002 to 2004, 54 e-mails released by the American Civil Liberties Union showed. The agents tried to get the military interrogators to follow a less coercive approach and warned that the harsh methods could hinder future criminal prosecutions of terrorists because information gained illegally is inadmissible in court.
Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, who was in charge of the prison at the time, overrode the FBI agents' protests, according to the documents.


Miller keeps cropping up in these cases. Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean that he's a sick, sadistic freak or a war criminal or anything. Even though he took the UCMJ equivalent of the Fifth Amendment rather than testify against subordinates prosecuted for abusing detainees at Abu Ghraib.

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