From: REDACTED
TO: REDACTED
DATE: 1/21/04 5:15PM
SUBJECT: FWD: RE: Impersonating FBI
When I was in the unit in December, I thought we agreed to take everything out of the EC that doesn't specifically pertain to the "impersonation" issue. All of that information (including our suggestion that the detainee was threatened with ---------------is still in there, which I think is totally inappropriate.
Regarding the "impersonation", I'm still not sure what our issue is here. It's fairly clear to me that the "FBI Agent" wasn't succesful in gaining the detainees cooperation. Thereafter, (months later) ------------ carried the day with his ruse regarding ---------- Once again, this technique, and all those used in these scenarios, was approved by the Dep Sec Def. Additionally, the techniques called into question in the EC were employed months after, and in a different environment from, the "FBI agent" ruse.
FWD:RE:Impersonating FBI 1/21/04
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What "Techniques" were they talking about? I would like to know exactly. Was it something like this?
From: REDACTED
Date: Monday, August 2, 2004
To: REDACTED
Subject: RE:GTMO
Here is a brief summary of what I observed at GTMO. On a couple of occasions, I entered interview rooms to find a detainee chained hand a foot in a fetal position to the floor, with no chair, food, or water. Most times they had urinated or defecated on themselves and had been left there for 18 24 hours or more. On one occasion, the air conditioning had been turned down so far and the temperature was so cold in the room, that the barefooted detainee was shaking with cold. . . . On another occasion, the A/C had been turned off, making the temperature in the unventilated room probably well over 100 degrees. The detainee was almost unconscious on the floor with a pile of hair next to him. He had apparently been literally pulling his own hair out throughout the night. On another occasion, not only was the temperature unbearably hot, but extremely loud rap music was being played in the room, and had been since the day before, with the detainee chained hand and foot in the fetal position on the tile floor.
Sensitive but Unclassified FBI document 8-2-2004
He had apparently been literally pulling his own hair out throughout the night.
From: REDACTED
To: REDACTED
Date: Thu, May 13, 2004 4:09PM
Subject: FWD:GTMO
After we got off the phone, I found the attached E-mail which we sent to General Miller last year. Also, there is a copy of the military's use of approved coercive techniques which are quite different I am sure from the Bureau guidelines you are preparing.
FBI memo May 13, 2004
Who is protected by the From and To being blocked out in these memos? Is this transparency? We should demand the names behind these memos. We need to know who was authorizing these programs. I think we should demand the names of who were behind these memos and knowingly allowed two sets of contradictory laws and orders to co-exist.
One thing is for sure now. The Dep Sec Def authorized what was going on in these memos, and is entirely complicit. What I do not know is if Dep Sec Def stands for the Department of Defense itself, or directly as in it's head at the time, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, or another part of the department itself or the Deputy Director. If anyone can help solve this piece of the puzzle, please do so. The web of lies they have tangled is far reaching, but slowly it is coming undone.
We want investigations, and we want them now.
We will get them and more, but only if we demand them.
A well deserved hat tip goes to the ACLU. Without their patriotic defense of our rights this information or any of the evidence it provides would not be possible. They certainly make our contributions count.