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AP: Report on FBI Role in Interrogations to be Released Tuesday
The Justice Department's inspector general has finally completed its report on the FBI's involvement in detainee interrogations:
Overall, the report gives the FBI fairly positive marks for repeatedly raising concerns between 2001 and 2004 about interrogation methods at three military prisons: Abu Ghraib in Iraq; in Bagram, Afghanistan; and at the U.S. facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.According to two law enforcement officials who have seen it, the report's twelve chapters touch on a range of issues, including the interrogations of terror suspects who were thought to have high-value information. The officials spoke about the report on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly.
"The FBI decided it would not participate in joint interrogations of detainees with other agencies in which techniques not allowed by the FBI were used," the report concluded, according to one law enforcement official who has seen it.
Fine's office also concluded that clearer guidance was needed for FBI agents left wondering what to do when interrogation tactics appeared to violate what would be allowed in the United States -- as opposed to under military law or in overseas detention centers, according to the second law enforcement official.
And the report raps the FBI in some cases for not immediately reporting the questionable interrogations or leaving the room when they were under way, the officials said.
The IG's report has been delayed in part because the Pentagon slow-rolled its review of the report for classified information.
FBI Director Robert Mueller testified to Congress last month that he had "reached out" to the Pentagon and the Department of Justice "in terms of activity that we were concerned might not be appropriate -- let me put it that way." But it was clear from his testimony that the Justice Department's essentially unilateral legalization of torture had prevented the FBI from investigating the abuses its agents witnessed.
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Zachary
The FBI received high marks for refusing to participate in abusive interviews with POWs. Why didn't the FBI rise to that same level of excellence, and balk and conducting home interviews? The FBI says US citizens should be subjected to inappropriate home contact, yet they they were "concerned [other contacts] might not be appropriate". War crimes in jail cells "bad" violations of citizens rights at home "good"?
We the People through the Constitution value raising points for discussion to solve problems, while some would wait until the news is a foregone conclusion before commenting on the loss of those rights. Some would rather wait for the Leader to provide the wrong answers, and celebrate loyalty than in leading others to progress. This comment is about the FBI. Those who react to words as if they were the issue show an unusual insecurity:
Beware those who offer no vision or insight, but lament the loss of rights without a plan. They "work" in the Department of inJustice. If you're tired of getting spit on, stay out of the Hoover Building.
May 19, 2008 7:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
All,
Please beware that the poster, testing, is linking to the case of Dr. Cyril Wecht. The case is currently under review by the Congress in relation to the case being a politically motivated prosecution.
During the aftermath of the first trial that ended in a hung jury, the US Attorney ordered the FBI agents assigned to the Wecht case to organize and conduct post trial interviews. This action has caused extensive public outcry and renewed the push of congress for a review of the case. The issue of the case is in the words of Dick Thornburgh, a politically savvy and ambitious US Attorney has appeared to utilize the resources under her command to target a prominent local Democrat. Hopefully, the DOJ will stop stonewalling the information requests and release the documents in the Wecht case to congress.
In response to the news reports, sycophants such as the individual know as testing have utilized the case to push their half-baked theories. Testing's theory is that GW Bush is somehow directly orchestrating the case against Dr. Cyril Wecht. On numerous occasions, the poster, testing, has been asked to provide evidence of such a link and all he provides are half-baked self referential pseudo-law analyses that provide no evidence and lack validity.
If now take Testing's words as truthful, "Beware those who offer no vision or insight, but lament the loss of rights without a plan. They "work" in the Department of inJustice." One can only assume Testing must be a mouthpiece for the DOJ. More likely though, Testing is a typical conspirabunker loon.
May 20, 2008 11:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
If an FBI agent witnessed, oh, say...
- a bank robbery
- a hit and run accident
- a shooting
- a mugging
- a pickpocketing
- a rape
- a beating
- domestic violence
- someone running off copies of drivers' licenses or stocks or something at their local Kinko's
Wouldn't they take some sort of action?
What's the difference between any of these actions and wilfull torture or war crimes?
What would be the judgement against a law enforcement official who saw something like this occur and made a deliberate decision not to intervene?
May 19, 2008 8:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry beltway-blinded bullies, but the treaties demand that ALL Gov't Officials ACT to report and put a stop to torture and war crimes.
You may not be "as bad" as the one causing the horrific, haunting screams. (Though that's also arguable.)
BUT...
-- if you hear the screams, know the screams are happening, read about them in a memo, or even suspect that a congressional hearing you call could prevent a single one of them --
-- and you don't disregard any risk, up to imminent physical danger, TO DO some damn thing --
...then you're on the Torture Team -- for the world to see (and prosecute), for all posterity, for your grandchildren to read about.
Yes, it sadly really is just that simple.
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May 19, 2008 8:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Mueller has the cover your own ass thing down to a science. Write a memo about what a poor FBI agent should do when he witnesses "activities" that are illegal under US and international law. That's the ticket! Fergodsake don't do the RIGHT thing and intervene, report the "activity" (what a slimy word that is for torture) or arrest the Blackwater "contractor" or CIA sadist whose having all the fun. The BOSS might get mad. What have we become?
May 20, 2008 1:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
When American voters chose not to have Bush as their president in 2000 and again in 2004, they were rejecting a shallow, puerile, hypocritical, hateful and insufficiently formed worldview...but they probably didn't focus as entirely as they should have on the actual depths to which those he would have around him would sink. Deep ignorance, incuriousity and character pathology permit an unmooring from principles so basic to who we are that torture can be countenanced. In retrospect it's clear that these people could be capable of that, and worse. What remains regrettable is the absence of screaming outrage at this violation of who we should be, at our core.
May 20, 2008 8:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
Here's the inside scoop on WHAT THE DEMS REFUSE TO INVESTIGATE AND BRING TO THEPUBLIC EYE.
1) I was tortured and chipped with an RFID mind control Verichip. THIS WAS USED TO PREVENT ME FROM FILING A CIVIL SUIT, AND A MOTION FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF IN FED JUDGE LARRY PEIRSOL'S SIOUX FALLS, SD, COURTROOM.
2) I then sought a course of medical care from a public health service in Sioux Falls. MY DOCTORS CHAD CARDA (SD Nat. Guard member) and JENNIFER BURGER ordered x-rays showing the milled piece of metal with the tell tale ninety degree angle.
CARDA did not let me see THE FIRST SET OF X RAYS SHOWING THE CHIP.
THE SECOND SET OF X RAYS ALSO WERE NOT SHOWN TO THE PATIENT.
I DID GET TO SEE FIVE X RAYS SHOWING SOMEONE ELSE'S SKULL.
3) I signed a SD Bd of Med and Osteopathic Examiners complaint detailing criminal charges FOR OBVIOUS VIOLATIONS OF TITLE 18 USC SECTIONS 241, 242, 1512, 1513, ETC.
4) THE BUSH WHITE HOUSE (Bolten, Miers) committed overt acts as part of a conspiracy to OBSTRUCT JUSTICE when the White House contacted SOUTH DAKOTA ATTY GENERAL LARRY LONG who dispatched and ordered SD ASS ATTY GENERAL DON SRSTKA to "obstruct justice" to avoid this fact pattern from influencing the 2006 congressional elections.
SRSTKA LATER....SENT ME A LETTER CLAIMING HE HAD SOME UN SPOKEN AND UNARTICULATED REASON FOR CLOSING HIS INVESTIGATION THAT HE NEVER STARTED OR WORKED ON?
5) I GAVE THIS INFO TO SEN PAY LEAHY AT THE US SEN JUD COMM.
LEAHY AGAIN....REFUSED TO TALK OR CONTACT THE CRIME VICTIM AND WHISTLEBLOWER THAT WOULD HAVE HELPED DEFINE ALOT OF ISSUES BEFORE HIS COMMITTEE, AND WOULD HAVE HELPED THE DEMOCRATS WIN MORE SEATS IN CONGRESS.
6) This harassment and conspiracy to TAMPER WITH A WITNESS WAS COMMMITTED BY UNKNOWN POLICE STATE ACTORS THAT FOCUS ON SIOUX FALLS, SD, COUNTERINTEL AGENT STEVEN PLUTA whose motive was to follow Mueller's orders to "illegally seize the x rays" using a Patriot Act Med Records section...that was abused since "THE PURPOSE OF THE PATRIOT ACT WAS TO PREVENT TERRORISM" NOT TAMPER WITH A COURSE OF MEDICAL CARE when a SEN JUD COMM WITNESS NAMED THOMAS S. BEAN contacted US DOJ OIG and Senator Grassley with a ten page memo.
7) The contact to Grassley and the DOJ OIG complaint includes references to:
----THE CANADIAN WARRANT FOR MIAMI FBI AGENT TERRY NELSON'S MONTANA DRUG CONSPIRACY USED BY GOP MONTANA GOV MARC RACICOT TO LAUNDER DRUG MONEY INTO THE GOP CAMPAIGNS....WITH FBI HITMAN MIKE "chuckie" PETERS whacking out numerous witnesses.
MIKE PETERS was also part of THE MINNEAPOLIS FBI'S FOOT AND VEHICLE SURVEILLANCE TEAM in April 2004 when I contacted DR. MARK GORDON IN ST. PAUL, MN, where Mark lived across the street from THE ST. PAUL FED BUILDING WHERE FBI AGENT PLUTA "illegally coerced Gordon's cooperation".
PLUTA is also the FBI COUNTER INTEL AGENT DISPATCHED TO COVER UP THE WELLSTONE MURDER IN EVELETH, MN.
PLUTA AND OTHERS....STOLE THE AIRPORT LOGS SHOWING WHEN MINNEAPOLIS FBI FLEW INTO DULUTH,MN, SO THEY COULD BE THE FIRST BADGES AT THE SCENE OF THE WELLSTONE MURDER...so they could scoop up all evidence including Wellstone's laptop, cell phone, etc.
THAT'S WHY MUELLER AND FBI SILENTLY SANCTIONS THE TORTURE AND CHIPPING AND MIND CONTROL HARASSMENT OF THOMAS S. BEAN, who contacted the US DOJ OIG, Leahy, Biden, and Grassley.
NOW MUELLER CLAIMS...he's innocent...despite the fact FBI JOINED THE DOD CIFA/NSA/CIA illegal interrogation of THOMAS S. BEAN. THIS INTERROGATION IS CALLED A SUBLIMINAL COUNTER INTEL DEBRIEFING.
THE QUESTIONS ASKED BY THE MIND CONTROLLERS INCLUDED:
----Where I hid my evidence of FBI/NSA crimes.
----Where I hid my copy of the RCMP arrest warrant for Miami FBI agent TERRY NELSON'S MONTANA DRUG PIPELINE.
----Where I hid my copy of the CALEA WIRETAPPING HARD DISK SHOWING THE SURVIELLANCE ON CHRISTINA MOORE, RICH GORDON, JFK JR, WELLSTONE, CARNEHAN, ETC.....as part murder conspiracies.
----Where my videotape of all the illegal breakins .
----Where my copy of Bob Mueller's offshore bank account showing the fraud and theft of the FBI CASE TRACKING SOFTWARE SCAM when FBI HQ, Sen App, and corporate contractors stole about 425, 000, 000$ for a piece of software that could have cost no more then ten million bucks with beta testing.
----Where my copy of the CALEA wiretapping evidence of THE NSA 902ND COUNTEINTEL GROUPS'S ILLEGAL WIRETAPPING OF SD US SENATOR TOM DASCHLE'S NOVEMBER 2004 CAMPAIGN (when Thune defeated Daschle by once again using the right wing SD Police Mafia to steal the ballots).
----And, a whole lot more.
BASICALLY...I WAS TORTURED AND CHIPPED SO THAT BOB MUELLER TO ILLEGALLY SEIZE MY EVIDENCE (phone call tape recordings) PROVING THE FBI'S COMPLICITY WITH NSA when the wiretapped, disseminated and then lied to judges in ex parte eavesdropping hearings.
CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE PETER GREGORY was the judge who "refused to join the conspiracy to obstruct justce" when he refused to give HIS JUDGE'S COPY OF THE BOGUS EX PART WARRANT APPLICATION THAT WAS MADE UNDER OATH WITH LYING COPS, LYING FBI AGENTS, AND PERJURING PROSECUTORS.
STATES ATTY DAVE NELSON THEN WORKED WITH FBI AGENT STEVEN PLUTA AND DOD'S CIFA UNIT....to get dirt on Judge Gregory, to extort his cooperation.
That scam...was successful...and Gregory melted down into a pool of fear and depression and resigned from the bench.
THAT'S THE STORY THAT SENATOR PAT LEAHY AND CONGRESSMAN CONYERS HAVE BEEN OFFERED BY ME....YET....THEY REFUSE TO TALK TO ME, INVESTIGATE, POLYGRAPH, OR SEND ME A SUBPOENA?
CAN YOU FIGURE OUT....WHAT THE F--- CONYERS IS DOING...WHEN I CAN GET ON A PLANE WITH MY EVIDENCE AND BLOW THIS FBI/NSA/CIA/WHITE HOUSE OUT OF THE WATER WITH DOCUMENTS PROVING PATRIOT ACT MURDERS OF POLITICAL ENEMIES?@!?
May 20, 2008 12:07 PM | Reply | Permalink