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[Incognito]

From the Washington Post, via Kos, we learn that members of Congress have been part of an elaborate show in which detainees are put through "mock interrogations", unbeknownst to the viewing party, on how detainees are treated and information extracted. Of course, knowing the BushCo administration, the show and presentation is GOOD. :lol Substance, not so good.

The U.S. military staged the interrogations of terrorism suspects for members of Congress and other officials visiting the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to make it appear the government was obtaining valuable intelligence, a former Army translator who worked there claims in a new book scheduled for release Monday.

Former Army Sgt. Erik Saar said the military chose detainees for the mock interrogations who previously had been cooperative and instructed them to repeat what they had told interrogators in earlier sessions, according to an interview with the CBS television program "60 Minutes," which is slated to air Sunday night.

"They would find a detainee that they knew to have been cooperative," Saar told CBS. "They would ask the interrogator to go back over the same information," he said, calling it "a fictitious world" created for the visitors.

Saar worked as a translator at Guantanamo from December 2002 to June 2003. During that time, several members of Congress reported visiting the base, but military officials said they do not know precisely how many toured it.

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) said she was "initially impressed" by interrogations she saw on a tour of Guantanamo Bay in February 2004 with members of the Homeland Security Committee. The delegation watched through mirrored glass as interrogators spoke in conversational tones and rewarded cooperative detainees with ice cream. Now, she believes, "we were duped."

"The amount and depth of the torture that's been alleged and corroborated leaves no doubt in my mind that what we saw was a staged interrogation," Norton said.

"They couldn't show people what they were really doing, because what they were really doing was illegal and inhumane," Ratner said. "It's such a fraud. It reminds me of the special concentration camps set up in World War II. They would take the Red Cross there to see there was an orchestra and all sorts of nice things."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/28/AR2005042801639.html

 

[Che]

Ice cream? :lol

 

[Drozmight]

:lol :lol :lol

terrible.

 

[darscot]

Hook me with a double scoop of rocky road and I'll talk. I thought these were crazed terrorsit killers. You'ld think it would take a little more then a little ice cream to break them. They must have pulled out all the stops and went with the Ben and Jerry's.

:lol :lol :lol

 

[Pimpwerx]

Huh. No major news on this yet. :? PEACE.

 

[Incognito]

Huh. No major news on this yet. :? PEACE.

Former Army Sgt. Erik Saar said the military chose detainees for the mock interrogations who previously had been cooperative and instructed them to repeat what they had told interrogators in earlier sessions, according to an interview with the CBS television program "60 Minutes," which is slated to air Sunday night.

Damn that Liberal-Elite Media!!!!

 

[Shinobi]

The fact that it's on 60 Minutes means it'll be immediately dismissed by half the population (meaning the people that need to hear this). Then again, I'm not convinced they'd care anyway.