FBI Report Questions Guantanamo Tactics

[NVMojo]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. law enforcement agents at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison for terrorism suspects concluded that the military's aggressive questioning yielded information that was "suspect at best," according to newly released portions of an FBI document.

That conclusion is contained in an internal FBI e-mail message, dated May 10, 2004, that also said the FBI had made it known to Pentagon officials in 2002 that the FBI "has been successful for many years obtaining confessions via non-confrontational interviewing techniques."

The document was released Monday by Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich. Portions that had previously been blacked out were released to Levin after he and Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., asked the Justice Department to reconsider.

Substantial portions of the document remain blacked out, even in the newly released version.

Among the newly released passages was the statement that law enforcement agencies at Guantanamo Bay "were of the opinion (that) results obtained from these interrogations were suspect at best."

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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Well, duh

people who are tortured say the darndest things-like anything their torturers want them to! There are many historical precidents, but I'll cite only one:

Ann Foster, an old woman living in North Andover MA in 1692, was held in jail and tortured until she confessed to being a witch. She gave every detail the torturers wanted to hear save one: she would not say her daughter and granddaughter were witches. For this she was condemned to death. She died in the Salem jail before the sentence could be carried out.

[cthrumatrix]

2. why isn't bush concerned about this...?

[NVMojo]

4. cuz his christianity preys on voiceless supporters ...

[struggle4progress]

3. kick

[lovuian]

5. So we don't need torture!!!

This is so ugly!!!

[NVMojo]

6. truly ...shameful ...