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FBI opened "war crimes" file on Guantánamo

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"FBI agents who witnessed the torture of detainees at the US prison camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba created what they called a “war crimes” file documenting what they had seen, according to a report released Tuesday by the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG).

The file, initiated in 2002, was ordered shut down by higher-ups in 2003 and agents were told to stop keeping records of the illegal acts that they had seen. Nonetheless, the use of the term “war crimes” by the US government’s main domestic intelligence arm, an agency with its own long record of political repression, is an extraordinary confirmation of charges that have long been leveled by opponents of the Bush administration and the criminal practices it has carried out in the so-called “global war on terror.”

According to the OIG report, FBI agents objected to the use by the CIA and the US military of techniques that one FBI official called “borderline torture.” Some agents raised concerns within the agency, but these concerns were ignored or squelched by the White House.

The report is on the role of the FBI in observing or participating in abusive practices, and is based on a survey of several hundred FBI agents. It seeks to absolve the bureau and its agents of responsibility for the abuse".

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You can read the original report here: http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/s0805/final.pdf , but I'd say the article nails it pretty well.
Mulcahey

26 responses // FBI opened "war crimes" file on Guantánamo

  • I am a pretty average person who doesn't get into politics or laws too much, so I don't care what the details are of what torture is defined as. It's not right that our government commits barbaric acts and beats around the bush arguing what our definition of torture is. When other countries commit similar acts, our government condemns it. Yes, it is becoming less and less honorable to live in America.
    Sara_Airey
  • And what the heck is with the censoring of that sentence in the beginning of the document? Do they explain that?
    Sara_Airey
  • watch this comment being used here, here, here, here, here, and here
    I dearly hope these records remian intact and are utilized properly to prosecute the current administration to the fullest extent.... Torture of any kind, even so-called "borderline" is absolutely unacceptable, and those who try to make it appear less severe than it is belong in the class of most despised criminals.
    Kati_kat
  • I would hope that this document would be used to prosecute the current administration, but, seeing how this administration has been able to commit the atrocities it has over and over and over again, I don't see how this could make a big difference.

    Photos of the Abu Gharib prisoners being humiliated and tortured to unspeakable degrees were all over ABC, CNN, NBC, and other major networks. The soldiers who participated in these acts were dishonorably discharged. Now that this document has been released, I highly doubt that the Bush Administration will suffer any consequences.

    ...Why hasn't our president been impeached?
    middle_east
  • That's what I keep saying! How do we stand idly by and let this guy keep driving this nation further and further into the mud? I have signed every petition I can get my hands on, written letters, and I get zilch. I can't tell you how disappointed I am in my own Democratic party for rolling over on this one. I rooted for Pelosi at first, and now her face makes me sick. Her ass has been bought.
    Kati_kat
  • I'm on board with you, Kati_kat, it's so hard to give our faith to anything or one when you constantly find yourself disappointed by the causes you once believed in. I don't know the answer to this problem. Does anyone?
    Sara_Airey
  • I believe that our government is becoming more and more hypocritical. Does no one else find it disturbing that if it;s our country, theres always a grey area, but if its over seas, its immediately torture? Please, not only is it become hard to defend yourself as a true patriot but we are becoming a dying breed. Start asking questions and don't stop.
    EbahDyke
  • CaptSutter
  • Don't watch the TV show 24 and tell your friends not to watch it. That show is a propaganda piece for the use of torture to get Americans to accept it.

    On TV they are always torturing the exact person who knows the exact code for a specific atomic bomb about to go off. So the audience accepts it. In reality, it's not like that at all.
    BentFranklin
  • the bush administration needs to be held accountable for their crimes against humanity
    cheakywillie
  • our government did things like this in Vietnam ,I have no doubt that they are committing these atrocites as i type
    they hide them under the guise of patriotism.like vietnam
    no good will come from this fiasco in iraq either.there is so much graft and corruption on both the military and
    civillan upper levels of adminstration nothing will ever be done about it
    charleskaj
  • *grind shread grind*
    "Documents? What documents?"
    That's what I've come to expect.
    huntre
  • I don't know how they get away with this
    iknew
  • How they get away with:
    Answer to the best of my knowledge...
    The reason they get away with this is due the Bush Admin's political fascism that they have created in the DOJ. All the attorney generals and all their judges are told via the brain child C. Rove to ignore any crimes by neo-con GOPs. The new US Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey has been to congress and told them that he will not investigate into the Abu Grave water boarding incident (see wikipedia). Also see the Don Siegelman case at wiki. Even if the congress votes to impeach Bush, Channey, and arrest Rove, they can't unless a judge or the US Att.Gen. signs the warrant. The only other option of the congress is to subpoena everyone to the congress and send the Sargent of Arms out to arrest anyone who does not come. The congress could impeach the US Att.Gen. but am not sure who would replace him. We are now in a fascist or light-weight fascist state were you can be arrested solely based on your politics or other false charges.
    tomofnorthcal
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5E3w7ME6Fs
    ... everybody knows...
    AlxanderRaven
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kTctirEPns
    War is over if you want it.
    AlxanderRaven
  • Hey why are they torturing that current tv journalist he is a good looking man we need to keep him healthy so he can bring us the news.
    LukesAlive
  • Dissent within the ranks? Excellent...
    Dmitri_Molotov
  • Torture doesn't get you what you want...a person can confess to almost anything under such a situation. It's barbaric and outdated. The Bush administration should be ashamed of this and you are right, I wish that there were a legal process for all of them.
    cibalin
  • My prediction: They're building a super max prison in the USA to warehouse the white house war criminals when the new administration comes into office. They will be subject to the same treatment they gave the humans being held in secret prisons and at G Bay. Just a prediction....
    WorldPeaceTV
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  • No evidence, no crime? How much evidence have they destroyed in plain sight? Isn't it illegal to destroy evidence?

    !
    Conniepae
  • http://existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com/2008/05/fbi-ev...
    Here's a brilliant article on that subject.
    Vierotchka
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  • Make sure the officers get THEIR punishment, too (and I don't mean wrist-slaps).
    Cynic2
  • And yeah--that bitch in the picture with the corpse is fvcked up. I'm not in love w/radical Islam, but that picture reminds me of a WW2 picture I saw in LIFE magazine of a secretary working at her desk which had the skull of a Japanese soldier killed, I believe, by her boyfriend, used as a paperweight. Oh well (re the chick in the picture w/the corpse), some right-wing country singer'll will sing about her "heroism".
    Cynic2

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