Torture: Don't blame the FBI

[thebullet]

Documents obtained by the ACLU through the freedom of information act continue to establish the pattern of abuse used by interrogators questioning detainees related to the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism.

Interestingly, the FBI is seriously pissed off because interrogators from the Department of Defense and the CIA have been masquerading as FBI agents during the interrogations and torturing of prisoners.

The FBI maintains that they do not use torture in questioning suspects. They say that torture is an ineffective way to obtain reliable information. And by the way, it is illegal! So saith the FBI!

Interested in looking at some original documents? Here is a link to the ACLU webpage with documents obtained from the US government.

 

[cantdog]

The FBI, ever since the Red Cross and the rest (Human Rights Watch, Americas Watch, Amnesty, etc.) began reporting the situation at Gitmo, have bent over backward to demonstrate their clean hands when it comes to torture in any form. They have reported to Congress every scrid of intelligence they get that torture might be going on, both in Gitmo and in the prisons in the US which are being used to hold ethnic profiling detainees for interrogation by INS and related national security people. Whenever it comes into the view of FBI, they report it to the people best suited to deal with it.

Report it, not participate. Report it, not cover it up. FBI wants no part of the black brush these other agencies will be tarred with when the torture policies end and the new brooms are sweeping clean.