Internal FBI Email re: Washington Post Article on FBI Detainee Records

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Subject: Washington-Post' • le.-on FBI Detainee ReCords.'
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„Subject: Washington,Post:•Axticle.on FBI -Detainee Records'
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tr'e le.a• se o•f FBI's records on- reatment'or-Detainees. - , • „
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"U.S. Ae.w,enforcement agents working at the military prison .in Guantanamo
,Bay, Cuba; concluded that controversial-interrogation practices used -there by,
. the Defense Department produced intelligence information that was "suspect at
,:best," an FBI agent told'a superior in a memo in May last year. But the, ''
Justice Department, which reviewed the memo:for national security secrets
before releasing It to a civil- liberties.group in December,-redacted the FBI
,agent's conclusion. The department, acting after'the Dafense'Department''':
expressed its own views on which.pottions of the, lettet should be redacted,
-also blacked out a separate-assertion in the memo thatpilitary interrogation
ptactices could undermine future military trials for terrorism suspects held.,
at Guantanamo Bay.- It alsowithheld a statement, by the memo's'author'that
Justice Department criminal division officials were so concerned about the;
military interrogation practices that they took their complaints' to, the
of the,Pentacjon's chief'attor.4,eY,, William J. Haynes II, whom 'President Bush
•has nominated to become a 'lfe deral judge.,", • •.
First, the TFBI release was not'reviewed,by DoJ prior to it being released in
,..December. There is no factual basis for•What is•saidin'the articlethat We .
::have'knowledge of. Our release' was coordinated within ;FBI only. In fact, 'to
Change our redaction would require use of our FDPS system andthis,certainly
.did not happen. • . , A
In February; in preparation fot Mt. Chertoff's.hearings and in'response to,a
- request from:SenatorLeyin, DoT asked us to re-review the e-mail to see
there could.be more information released.' We released several more names "(SES:
level)ithat had.beenexempted in'error and some information that had been
:exempted .Under b(5) (internal agency deliberations). There were•b(1)• .
jolaasified information) :exemptions .on.the, pages in questtbn.',
:change ormOdify them. •This release was coordinated with
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