I am not the one to write this but I am not seeing it in the list and it must get out there.
There is more to this than I first thought. Midday news 7/8/2009 which sends one to a Nation article Miami Herald - Gitmo captive visited by Tajik intelligence agents.
And from MSNBC Chinese Agents in Gitmo
But according to MSNBC
Members of Congress have been routinely denied access to the Guantanamo detainees.
From yesterday's MSNBC story:
Jay Alan Liotta, principal director of the Defense Department office responsible for detainee policy, told a House subcommittee on Thursday that he would not publicly comment on whether officials from China or any other nation were granted access to foreign citizens held at the detention facility.
He offered to release that information to the committee during a closed, classified session.
From these two stories we get that DoD has allowed at least two foreign spy agencies access to Gitmo detainees. And yet Congress, who is supposed to have oversight authority over DoD and one presumes, over Gitmo as well, are not allowed to visit there.
Now I know that some repubs have been there because of the stories we have heard about how well the detainees supposedly eat! So maybe this is the lower house that is shut our?
The former detainees [Uighurs] testified that they were forced to provide their photographs and identities to the Chinese agents under the threat of torture and, under those agents’ orders, were denied food and water and isolated in a frigid room.
Abdulayev fled civil war in his homeland at age 13. He claims in court filings that he was visited by Tajik intelligence agents during his U.S. detention with a sinister offer: Spy on Muslim radicals in the former Soviet Republic in exchange for his release. When Abdulayev refused, the detainee claims, the agents threatened retribution.
So not only were agents allowed to visit, they also were allowed to punish the Gitmo detainees that they visited.
We don't know how many other foreign goverment agents also got to visit. One would presume Pakistan's agents might have also been on the list. Neither Iraq nor Afghanistan's spy agencies were up to snuff. So who else got to play hardball with these guys? Open season for everything except for the rule of law for DoD and CIA.
UPDATE: Further into the Miami Herald article:
The New York Center for Constitutional Rights, which coordinates Guantánamo legal defense efforts, says captives have claimed they were interrogated by agents from China, Tunisia, Jordan, Libya and Tajikistan.
2nd UPDATE Thanks to BeijingBetty for the note that what I thought was the Nation was really the Nation section of the Miami Herald. That has been corrected. And she added the following in her comment from that paper:
It is not possible to independently verify such claims. But Defense Department documents disclosed through the courts have revealed that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized an interrogation technique called ''false flag,'' which would permitted U.S. interrogators to pose as foreigners.