Gitmo interrogators shift focus to prison activity

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By MIKE MELIA – 3 hours ago

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — Interrogators at Guantanamo Bay are asking detainees primarily about activity inside the U.S. military prison ...

"Guantanamo has become little more than a holding center for hundreds of men, most of whom will never be charged with a crime and have nothing to offer the U.S. government in the way of actionable intelligence," said Jennifer Daskal, senior counterterrorism counsel for Human Rights Watch ...

<Navy Rear Adm. David Thomas> said the intelligence-gathering program is crucial for understanding the reasons behind prisoner outbursts ...

Ben Wizner, an American Civil Liberties Union attorney, said the new focus "confirms what professional interrogators have been saying for years: that captured terrorism suspects provide no useful intelligence after the first six months of detention."

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