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| NY Slimes: Before/After Abu Ghraib, a U.S. Unit Abused Detainees |
| 2006-03-18 |
| Come and get it! Fresh bullshit from the NY Slimes Front Page As the Iraqi insurgency intensified in early 2004, an elite Special Operations forces unit converted one of Saddam Hussein's former military bases near Baghdad into a top-secret detention center. There, American soldiers made one of the former Iraqi government's torture chambers into their own interrogation cell. They named it the Black Room.  |
| Posted by:Captain America |
| #2 By early 2004, both the C.I.A. and the F.B.I. had expressed alarm about the military's harsh interrogation techniques. The C.I.A.'s Baghdad station sent a cable to headquarters on Aug. 3, 2003, raising concern that Special Operations troops who served with agency officers had used techniques that had become too aggressive. Five days later, the C.I.A. issued a classified directive that prohibited its officers from participating in harsh interrogations. Separately, the C.I.A. barred its officers from working at Camp Nama but allowed them to keep providing target information and other intelligence to the task force. The warnings still echoed nearly a year later. On June 25, 2004, nearly two months after the disclosure of the abuses at Abu Ghraib, an F.B.I. agent in Iraq sent an e-mail message to his superiors in Washington, warning that a detainee captured by Task Force 6-26 had suspicious burn marks on his body. The detainee said he had been tortured. A month earlier, another F.B.I. agent asked top bureau officials for guidance on how to deal with military interrogators across Iraq who used techniques like loud music and yelling that exceeded "the bounds of standard F.B.I. practice." Nothing new here. Nothing that hasn't been dealt with. The only question in my mind, is the leak from the FBI or the CIA? Foolish me. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-03-18 19:52 |
| #1 Thank you, Captain America, for reminding me again why I don't read the NYT anymore. Newspaper of record, indeed! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-03-18 19:14 |