| | | Your Government at Work: Gitmo Torture and Beyond | | | | The American Civil Liberties Union has undertaken the task of obtaining declassified documentation of prisoner abuse in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (Gitmo).
The documents we are
obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request (the FOIA is a federal law that allows the public access to documents and other knowledge from the federal government) on Oct. 7, 2003, and the ACLU has been releasing the documents to the public as theyve received them. The collection of documents contains 35,000 pages of information.
The documents paint a picture of prisoner abuse that goes way beyond the isolated incidents at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. In fact, what we find are instead widespread allegations of abuse. Of course, George W. Bushs defenders like to pretend that even if there was prisoner abuse, it wasnt that bad (Rush Limbaugh famously likened the abuse at Abu Ghraib to a fraternity hazing. You know, the hazing that involves stripping someone naked, or withholding food for hours, or the make use of
of attack dogs to terrify the young pledge, or sodomizing that pledge with a glow-stick. Those fraternity rituals. Oh, and raping of the fraternity pledge. Those wacky college kids!), whylook at all of those mass graves in Iraq! Saddam Hussein was much worse! Which, while true, doesnt change the fact that, as of September 30, 2004, the Pentagon had investigated 187 allegations of prisoner abuse. Apparently, the right wings definition of the word isolated is a bit different than the often accepted utilize of the word.
One of the FBI memos obtained by the ACLU discuss the alleged impersonation of FBI agents by Department of Defense interrogators. It is dated December 5, 2003 (some of the FBI abbreviations used: EC is Electronic Communication; CTD is Counterterrorism Division; MLDU is Military Liaison and Detainee Unit; CITF is Criminal Investigation Task Force) and states:
"I am forwarding this EC up the CTD chain of command. MLDU requested this data
be documented to protect the FBI. MLDU has a long standing and documented position against make use of
of some of DODs interrogation practices, however we were not aware of these latest techniques until recently...of concern, DOD interrogators impersonating Supervisory Special Agents of the FBI told a detainee (blacked out | | |
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