DoJ probe on Guantanamo interrogations released
Submitted by jrjacobs on Tue, 2008-05-20 21:20.
The Department of Justice’s Inspector General has just released its report (PDF) (uploaded to the Internet Archive of course!) on the FBI’s involvement in detainee interrogations in Guantanamo, Afghanistan and Iraq. Reuters reports that the “Bush administration’s top security officials ignored FBI concerns” and that the “FBI, alarmed by interrogation techniques such as the use of snarling dogs and forced nudity, clashed with the Defense Department and CIA over their use. According to McClatchy News, The IG's report had been delayed in part because the Pentagon slow-rolled its review of the report for classified information.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration's top security officials ignored FBI concerns over the abusive treatment of terrorism suspects, which one agent called "borderline torture," a four-year Justice Department probe found.
The FBI, alarmed by interrogation techniques such as the use of snarling dogs and forced nudity, clashed with the Defense Department and CIA over their use, said the 370-page report released on Tuesday by the Justice Department's inspector general.
Critics say the techniques employed by the CIA and U.S. military in questioning terrorism suspects captured after the September 11 attacks amounted to torture.
FBI agents participated interrogations and still do, but bureau Director Robert Mueller directed agents in 2002 not to participate in coercive questioning, the report said.
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Searchable copy of DOJ/FBI Guantanamo report
Thanks, James for posting about the DoJ probe on Guantanamo interrogations and depositing (!) the report in the IA!
I found it interesting that the document is redacted (sections of text are blacked out). In many of the places I examined, the redactions appeared to be the names or locations of (apparently secret) prisons (e.g. from the table of contents):
K. Depriving Detainees of Clothing ....................................250
1. Abu Ghraib Prison ....................................................... 251
2.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.....252
I also noticed that there are at least two places to get presumably official copies of the report:
http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/s0805/final.pdf http://judiciary.house.gov/Media/PDFS/GITMOReview0805.pdf
As I was reading about this and looking for the report this morning before I saw your post, I found that the New York Times has a copy of the same report linked from their article about it (Report Details Dissent on Guantanamo Tactics, By Eric Lichtblau And Scott Shane, New York Times, May 21, 2008).
The nice thing about this copy is that it is searchable and text can be copied and pasted in other documents. It is considerably larger than the "official" versions (28 megs vs. 6 megs) and was created with OmniPage Capture SDK, which is capable of doing optical character recognition on PDF documents. The "official" copies were created using Xerox WorkCentre 7655, a printing and scanning device.
The two "offical" documents appear at a quick look to be identical, but they are slightly different (sizes are 18,793 bytes different; both have the same creation date and time, but different last modified times).
One final note: This morning, the Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General page that links to its PDF copy said "HTML - Coming soon" but that comment is now gone.
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