Title: MILITARY LIASON & DETAINEES
Synopsis: Document information concerning impersonation by DoD interrogators at Guantanamo representing themselves to be officials of the FBI and the State Department.
FBI Memo 11/25/2003
�Of concern, DOD interrogators impersonating Supervisory Special Agents of the FBI told a detainee that REDACTED. These same interrogation teams then REDACTED. The detainee was also told by this interrogation team REDACTED. These tactics have produced no intelligence of a threat neutralization nature to date and CITF believes that techniques have destroyed any chance of prosecuting this detainee. If this detainee is ever released or his story made public in any way, DOD interrogators will not be held accountable because these torture techniques were done the �FBI� interrogators. The FBI will be left holding the bag before the public.�
aclu.org/torturefoia/released 12/15/04
MLDU = Military Liaison and Detainee Unit (FBI)
CITF = Criminal Investigation Task Force (a military unit, DoD)
CTD = Counterterrorism Division (FBI)
SSA = Supervisory Special Agent (FBI)
hat tip to roses in the comments below
Why would the DoD do something like this unless they were trying to manufacture evidence they could not have gotten otherwise? Who was playing who for who? Was this designed to trick security guarding detainees? Was it done to implicate other agencies? Was it done to confuse investigators? Yes. No. Maybe. I need a drink. Too many questions and not enough good answers. Too much brutality and injustice coming from the guys who say they want to protect me. They have a funny way of showing it. I am not laughing, though.
This claim is an outright indictment in and of itself, but there is more like it, lots more. . . . and it just keeps getting worse and worse.
FWD: Impersonating FBI at GITMO
PDF form
Who were they trying to deceive? The detainees who posed no threat to them? The DoD under Rumsfeld has to go down for this, and both the FBI and the State Department should be get a good look under the microscope as well. Who knows what was really going on over there?
"Defense Department interrogators, possibly on instructions from high-level officials, went to great lengths to avoid being held accountable for the use of unlawful interrogation methods," said Jameel Jaffer, a staff attorney with the ACLU. "Apparently Defense Department personnel were willing to use torture but they wanted others to be held responsible for it."
aclu.org
These are just two bits of information I found on the ACLU's website, which reads like a chronological map of war crimes enough to keep historians 100 years from now busy, indeed.
While President Obama was batting off questions during his press conference the other day I was in a rather good mood. I got a call from the ACLU during the press conference, asking for my support. I would be glad to do so before, but I'm still looking for a job. Until then I gotta start start catching up on my debt, but now I am getting a lifetime membership as soon as I can. Their work in securing these documents has truly been phenomenal.
Before 100 years of history passes, or even another day, I think investigations should begin today in regards to the crimes against humanity committed by the previous administration, starting with the DoD for their central role in steering our nation into a unnecessary war in Iraq while we had Osama Bin Laden on the run. There isn't a name I can think of in any language for the crime of ginning up a war of folly on lies for profit. Whatever it is will be decided on by history.
The FBI leadership during the beginning of War Inc. under Bush/Cheney has already claimed to have had no involvement, and they have shown that this may be true, but I for one would still like to shine the light of transparency on them.
The State Department at that time, on the other hand, needs a total fumigation, because we won't really begin to know anything until after the smoke clears, whereas right now the fuse has just been lit. I get the feeling when the smoke does clear, we are going to find Condi, Rumsfeld and others, leading in a path all the way up to VP Cheney, and then Bush.
But before that happens, we have to yell louder.
If we start yelling really loud, some one might start doing what we want, which is what needs to be done.