This email is a response to a Bureau wide memo sent by Steve McCraw to illicit information from FBI agents who toured through Guantanamo Bay to report any suspected or witnessed abuse of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. The agent related the following: Detainees would be placed in the interview room approximately 6-8 hours prior to the scheduled interview. The air conditioning in the room would be turned down to as low as 55 degrees. Detainees restricted from movement with hand and leg cuffs, and a chain-bolted to the floor, which would prevent them from moving around the room. I vaguely recall seeing detainees in rooms by themselves in conditions which I believe included uncomfortably cold environments.
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-I'm responding Via e-mail because I was aware of a -practice of interrogating 'detainees which 1 did not feel .was appropriate. During my snort TOY at GTMO in July 2002,-1 took part in some discussions -about a practice which had been utilized in Which the detainee would be placed in the intervieW room approximately 8-8. ,r11,
5 or to the scheduled interview. The air•Conditioningin the room would be turned down to as ' ...
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. . hand legc .ifs, and a chain-bolted to the floor, which would prevent . them from moving around the room, whic In this case would prevent them from adjusting the air conditioning temperature_ '.. •. • • -
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- My interview team did not participate in this practice, but I vaguely recall seeing detainees in rooms by -themselves in conditions which.' believ.ed inCluded unoornfortablY cold environments.. There -. . were occasions:when our interview team would show up foren interview and the temperature in the room was urcornfortabty.cold. However, thedetainee was rarely in the-room. For any length of tirhe before the .
-interview and we would immediately Wm The air conditioning temperature to a-comfortable-level I brought the topic up to the Marine Corps JAG assigned to us and they actually -began to discourage this pradtice, , not necessarily because of my efforts, but others that agreed with my v.eiwsas well. . • . - - •
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