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Inspector General: FBI Slow In Reporting Detainee Abuse
                   
freeinternetpress.com     20-May-2008            

FBI officials should have moved more quickly to sound alarms about abusive interrogation practices its agents witnessed in Cuba, Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a report by an agency watchdog released Tuesday morning. The lengthy study by the Justice Department's inspector general clears the...


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FBI agents created “war crimes file” documenting US torture

indymedia.org.uk     22-May-2008          

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).

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FBI Warned Administration on Interrogation Techniques

shortnews.com     22-May-2008          

A new US government report claims that the current US Administration were warned by the FBI over interrogation techniques which were being used in at Guantanamo Bay as well as in Iraq and Afghanistan. The US justice department report claims the FBI disagreed with the CIA on the use of dogs during...

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Torture at Guantanamo

Murat Kurnaz on “60 Minutes” about a month ago. From The Christian Science Monitor: In a landmark congressional hearing Tuesday, former Guantánamo detainee Murat Kurnaz described abuses he said he endured while in US custody - among them electric shock, simulated drowning, and days spent chained...

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FBI interrogation warning 'ignored'

aljazeera.net     22-May-2008          

Dogs were used against prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq [AP] Senior Bush administration officials ignored warnings from the FBI over interrogation techniques used at Guantanamo Bay and in Iraq and Afghanistan, a new US government report says. The FBI clashed with the Pentagon and the CIA...

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White House puts aside FBI's warnings on detainee abuse

people.com.cn     22-May-2008          

The White House ignored early warnings from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI, that U.S. interrogators may have abused detainees, according to a new report from the Justice Department. The report, released here Wednesday, shows that FBI agents started reporting as early as 2002 about...

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FBI agents witnessed 'borderline torture' of detainees: DOJ report

pitt.edu     22-May-2008          

JURIST] US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) [official website] agents were present during interrogations of terrorism suspects in which Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] or Department of Defense (DOD) [official website] officers used "borderline torture" interrogation...

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Guantanamo: Immoral ground

nwsource.com     22-May-2008          

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL BOARD It's fascinating that the Bush administration seems to believe that the term "war crimes" is applicable only to dictators and those it deems enemy combatants when between 2002 and 2003 the FBI has been keeping a war crimes file on how the U.S. treats...

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FBI Interrogation Report Shows Internal War

washingtonpost.com     22-May-2008          

Complaints levied against FBI agents about abusive interrogation tactics at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and other U.S. military sites show a proverbial war of ideals between government interrogators, according to an internal audit released yesterday. Reports that Guantanamo detainees were being...

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FBI agents objected to interrogation tactics - USATODAY.com

usatoday.com     22-May-2008          

WASHINGTON — FBI agents assigned to interview key terrorism suspects repeatedly objected to harsh — and possibly illegal — interrogation tactics used by other U.S. officials two years before abuse of detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison became public in 2004, a Justice Department review found....

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FBI Kept Quiet About Torture

Another one-day special before the AmeriKan MSM drops the issue? CIA and military interrogators bucked repeated warnings from the FBI that methods used to question terror suspects were in some cases "borderline torture" and potentially illegal, the Justice Department's internal watchdog reported...

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