Posted on 02/02/2007 3:33:44 PM PST by SmithL
San Juan, Puerto Rico (AP) --
A Marine paralegal who reported that she overheard guards at Guantanamo Bay brag about beating detainees was accused by a military investigator of filing a false report, the paralegal's boss, a Marine officer, said Friday.
Army Col. Richard Basset, who was ordered by the U.S. Southern Command to investigate the allegations into guards' actions, met the paralegal, Marine Sgt. Heather Cerveny, late last year at Camp Pendleton, Calif., where she is based, according to Marine Lt. Col. Colby Vokey.
Basset told Cerveny the guards denied her account of their conversation in a Guantanamo bar — and the investigator accused her of having made a false statement, Vokey told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.
The investigation began after Vokey, a military lawyer who represents a Guantanamo detainee, filed a complaint with the Pentagon's Inspector General's office in October and attached a sworn statement from Cerveny, his paralegal. She said she had talked to several guards in a bar at Guantanamo Bay and they bragged about beating detainees and described it as common practice.
Cerveny said some guards spoke of denying prisoners water and other privileges without provocation at the U.S. military prison in southeast Cuba, where nearly 400 men suspected of links to al-Qaida or the Taliban are held.
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Ping
Your man Vokey ping, lil.
Thanks for the ping, onyx. Interesting, I remember that story.
Great my cover is blown, but hee hee he's a good JAG.
It's like a full circle moment Red. It's where it all started.
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