DOJ says no FBI agents participated in ‘abusive’ interrogation.
DOJ says no FBI agents participated in ‘abusive’ interrogation.
A new report from the Justice Department’s inspector general concluded that “no agents for the Federal Bureau of Investigation took part in the military’s rough interrogations” in Guantánamo Bay, Iraq and Afghanistan. The report, however, also states that agents were too slow to respond to misgivings about questioning tactics. Some agents said the “torture tactics” they witnessed “yielded little actual intelligence“:
F.B.I. agents complained to superiors beginning in 2002 that the tactics they had seen yielded little actual intelligence, prevented them from establishing a rapport with detainees through more traditional means of questioning and might violate F.B.I. policy or American law.
One F.B.I. memorandum spoke of “torture techniques” used by military interrogators. Agents described seeing things like inmates handcuffed in a fetal position for up to 24 hours, left to defecate on themselves, intimidated by dogs, made to wear women’s underwear and subjected to strobe lights and extreme heat and cold.
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As Fred Sanford would say: You believe me to believe a cock and bull story like that?they must think we’re really stupid to belief their crapola anymore.
May 17th, 2008 at 8:29 pmtake care
tony and guidedogLido
believe
May 17th, 2008 at 8:29 pm“I’ve said to the people that we don’t torture, and we don’t.”
President Bush
May 17th, 2008 at 8:49 pm“Yep son, we have met the enemy and he is us.” — Pogo
May 17th, 2008 at 9:11 pmTrizza Says:
“I’ve said to the people that we don’t torture, and we don’t.”
President Bush
he’s said and done more than that to the people of the world, cause he’s a big fat loser!
May 17th, 2008 at 9:19 pmI am waiting for the Bush Administration to tell me something TRUE . . . now THAT would be a HEADLINE!
I gonna join Bush and give up . . . what? really?, oh well, never mind.
May 17th, 2008 at 9:28 pmWHERE IS THE WAR CRIMINAL RICE???? She is ducking questions about the secret meeting in the White House which dealt with the USA’s TORTURE PROGRAM. While misleading Congress, the American people and the World community by stating over and over again “that the US does not Torture”. Shwe is a LIER and a WAR CRIMINAL. She should resign and being indicted imediatly.
May 17th, 2008 at 9:30 pmRiceMustGo.com
Jess Wonderin
I’m not holding my breath on that. I just know that when they say something, the opposite is true!
May 17th, 2008 at 9:32 pmRiceMustGo.com
May 17th, 2008 at 9:32 pmLessee. They
concluded that “no agents for the Federal Bureau of Investigation took part in the military’s rough interrogations” in Guantánamo Bay, Iraq and Afghanistan
But they
said the “torture tactics” they witnessed “yielded little actual intelligence“:
So they watched, but didn’t take part, then….
were too slow to respond to misgivings about questioning tactics
Sounds like aiding and abetting war crimes to me.
May 17th, 2008 at 10:10 pmMuller is known to lie often so if the Head of the FBI lies can we believe a word they say. The CIA agents who transported and tortured innocent men/woman/children are looking or the White House to protect them. Right now a trial is going on in another country on the criminal action of the US CIA. To hear the White House and Pentagon tell it the prisoners arrested themselves and tortured and killed themselves. If you don’t buy that then Bill Clinton did it.
May 17th, 2008 at 10:50 pmPrescott Bush was one of those who planned to assassinate FDR now his grandson George W. has murdered thousands of innocent people and even allowed thousands of soldiers to die based on lies. You can be sure the White House had a hand in the murder of Pat Tillman as he spoke up about how bad the Bush Administration was.
So much for the military following the Army Field Manual.
Before, we had been told that only the CIA used torture. Here we learn that the military was also involved. The military has a chain of command. Local officers would not ignore the Army Field Manual without direct orders to do otherwise. Who gave those orders? Common sense says that these orders were issued out of the oval office.
May 17th, 2008 at 11:25 pmI want to know what the FBI Agents were told by the interrogators about why “torture techniques” were being used at all. Did they reveal who ordered that these techniques be used?
If an FBI Agent felt he or she was witnessing a crime, should he or she not attempt to stop it? They must have said something to the interrogators using torture. What did the interrogators say back?
May 18th, 2008 at 1:33 am“Agents described seeing things like inmates handcuffed in a fetal position for up to 24 hours, left to defecate on themselves, intimidated by dogs, made to wear women’s underwear and subjected to strobe lights and extreme heat and cold.”
…sounds like a usual saturday night at club cheney…
May 18th, 2008 at 2:11 amKilo Says:
“There is” should be “There was”
Who really cares what tense you meant, Reicher?
_AIO_
May 18th, 2008 at 5:24 am#15 Kilo Says:
My, you lot really haven’t been paying attention have you.
There is pretty much no documented evidence of anyone being tortured, other than what the FBI recorded, then provided in their memos to non-government investigations. These releases were the first, best and most damaging evidence of that. They did so due to their objections to the tactics used, something which has been unwaveringly constant and wholly unchallenged as to its accuracy.
In return for this (and their objections to such techniques being used) they’re called liars when a report in 2008 confirms what every other account before it has said.
Great work.
So basically you are saying that President Bush who agreed to torture techniques and that Rice, Cheney, Powell, and the rest of the gang didn’t hold meetings on torture??? Please, you are the one who didn’t do his homework.
He (Bush) admitted to it, what more do you want. John Yoo tried to make it legal in memos. Did we dream that up on our own, I think not…
Kilo stop trying to defend them, because that is what is sounds like you are doing. Or are you deliberately being antagonistic on purpose?? You were very unfriendly on many of the other threads, are you just having a bad weekend??
May 18th, 2008 at 6:05 amAhhhh yes, the Bush Regime keeps rewriting history when they feel they need to to make themselves look and fell better.
May 18th, 2008 at 8:28 amFreedom Rebel,
It is Kilo, of course, who is either deliberately being obtuse and trying to derail things, or else he truly is as ignorant as he appears to be. What he and his ilk refuse to acknowledge is that the Bush Administration flat out denied from the beginning that anybody was tortured, or even that any techniques like water-boarding were being used. Then, when they finally relented and admitted water-boarding was being used, they claimed that it wasn’t torture. Then, when it was clar that what was done to some prisoners was clearly torture in the eyes of the world and history, they tried to say that it didn’t matter because the president had the constitutional authority to do whatever he wants “during time of war” (a policy flatly contradicted by none other than the Constitution itself.)
People like Kilo enjoy seeing people get hurt, so they support the president when he wants to hurt people. If the FBI wasn’t involved in the tortures they witnessed, then why weren’t they screaming at the top of their lungs that they witnessed it going on? Why did they not arrest the torturers on the spot and let the justice system determine their guilt?
May 18th, 2008 at 10:29 am
May 18th, 2008 at 10:37 amHow true, how true. Smart asses usually do.
Must say he’s a professional at revisionist history, though.
May 18th, 2008 at 10:39 amSo Kilo, is English your second language? If you’re going for nuance, as a known troll, we’ll expect the worst.
May 18th, 2008 at 2:07 pm“DOJ says” is enough to make me stop reading. Talk to me when we have a functioning DOJ.
May 18th, 2008 at 2:08 pm