Posted on 05/02/2005 4:57:10 AM PDT by Born Conservative
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. military staged interrogations of terrorism suspects for lawmakers and other officials visiting the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to make it appear they were obtaining valuable intelligence, according to a newly published book written by a former Lackawanna County resident.
Former Army Sgt. Erik Saar, a 1993 graduate of Abington Heights High School, 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" that aired Sunday night.
"They would find a detainee that they knew to have been cooperative," Mr. Saar, formerly of Clarks Summit and also a graduate of King's College in Wilkes-Barre, 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.
Mr. 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.
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Big deal.
The military has been doing this since the Vietnam war.
Troops would go out at night for an operation. And then re-enact it in the next morning's daylight so that CBS, and the other TV networks, could gather film footage.
The Washington Post is printing this, and 60 minutes is airing it. They'll do everything in their power to make the Administration look bad and the liberal media will be all over it.
Sounds like Erik Saar needs a few years in Gitmo for not knowing when to STFU.
To ask a set of questions only once to such prisoners would be a shallow exercise indeed. Perhaps the reporter has held a group of subsribers prisoner in the dungeons of their fine publication offices, and knows a bit about how to torture their readers, but that's not hardly the same thing.
This proves it, there is no war on terror. It's all a hoax. Everyone can go home.
"Troops would go out at night for an operation. And then re-enact it in the next morning" Sounds alot like John Kerry in Nam doesn't it.
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