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. This FBI agent related the following: I was told sometime in the second or third week of February of 2004, a detainee was taken to an interview where he was yelled at for 25 minutes. The detainee was short-shackled, the room temperature was significantly lowered, and strobe lights were used and possibly loud music. After the initial 25 minutes of yelling, the detainee was left alone in the room in this condition for approximately 12 hours. The detainee was also refused permission to eat, pray, or use the bathroom.
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I will put you down as a positive response, so no need to do an EC: l will print out the email and let OGC
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ascertain if the treatment is beyond the scope.. Thank you for your response. •
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LL. ram trying to err on the side of caution here,' so these incidents may or may not fall within the parameters you -are using. I have been repeatedly assured that; althonh some, of the . techniqUes utilized_ by some of the non-FBI interrogators here are well'outside what would generally •be :considered' standard proeedure for •a corps FBI interview, all of the techniques. Used have been.aPprOved by the SeeDef. However I personally feel about these techniques; I have been,ussured that DOD had permission, I further do not believe anything akin -to the activities at • Abu Ghareb in Iraq have taken place here.
1) Situation: I: was told on or about:Thursday; 22 .April 2004 by a member of DOD'iNordi 'Europe (NAE) team that whom he debriefs,. had provided the 'following: 5ometime in the -secondor -third week of February bf 2004,1—'IWis taken to reservation. Lii,Va.s on both FBI and NAE hold.)• He did not recognize the -interviewers and•when he told them he-didn't want to speak to an one unless they were introdueed by his, reiulat-interrogators, he was.yelled at for 25 mintaes.I lwaS short,-shackled, the room temperature was significantly lowered, strobe lights. • were used, and possibly loud music. There were two male interrogators; One stood behind him • .
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-and.the other in front: , T1i.ey yelled at humand. told him he was never leaving here.
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interrogator tried to get to identify photoS. After the initial 25 minutes of yelling, =was left alone in the room in this condition for aPproximately 12 honis. • At . one point,•interrogator came back in -the afternoon to make sure he was'there. 'During the 12 hours,EIWas not permitted to eat, pray, or use the bathroom. • One of the interrogators was deScribed.as old/late 50's, grey and black hair, mustache with no beard, short; skinny, arid wore a blue sliirt. s •
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My actions: I verbally informed nay GTMO SSA when received the information ; later
Note: It is • my understanding all of these techniques were, at that•time, permitted per DOD. We believe the interviewers may have been with CTC based upon the physical desc;riptiori and the fact that= was taken to an interview room without appearing on the schedule.., I believe. they are the only entity here that can do that.
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• Situation: I observed the following in early April of 2004: = was being -debriefed.for several
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. ',hours (appcximately 15 h6tirs) by NAE. Throughotit the session, .periodically threw . up in a, . trash can. At the time Iwas told he had an ulcer and thatthe stress wasirritating it. I was• later. advised he had a stomach .virus. I was told hehad been .given' a shat of Motrin (or something like that) by the.medical staff . . . . .
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-My actions: Die in part to the fact that LTC I /was present and.did not object to the ..
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situation, and that I never heard n ask to be returned to his cell or request' medical assistance, I took no action. I subsequently reported this to the G -TMO On-Scene Commander via e-mail on .:
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1 fwas kept in an interrogation roam for-approximately 15 hours, ,short-shaekled
, with strobe lights and possibly Music. .. -- -.. .- . . . .• . My actions: Because it was my understanding that:at 'that...time, all of thesetechniques Were . permitted per DOD, I did not repott• this. ,
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