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  • Interrogating intelligence; Soldiers deny torture is part of curriculum at Intelligence Center

    05/14/2004 5:36:50 PM PDT · by SandRat · 4 replies · 144+ views
    FORT HUACHUCA - If military intelligence soldiers were part of the Iraqi prisoner abuse, they have violated the tenets of what is being taught at the Army's Intelligence Center, Spc. Jason Hickman said Wednesday. If it is found to be true, "it's a blemish on MI (military intelligence)," said the 30-year-old soldier who is a week away from graduating as a human intelligence collector, better known as an interrogator. Physical and mental torture is not what is being taught on the fort, Hickman said during a break in a weeklong field training exercise where he and other soldiers use what...
  • NYT SPLASH: CIA ROUGH INTERROGATION OF TOP QAIDA DETAINEES

    05/12/2004 7:35:10 PM PDT · by cohokie · 124 replies · 126+ views
    The methods employed by the CIA against high-level leaders and operatives of al-Qaida are so severe that senior officials of the FBI have directed bureau agents to stay out of many of the interviews of the high-level detainees, the NYT is reporting Thursday in an exclusive... MORE...
  • CIA Sought Contractors for Interrogators

    05/12/2004 7:56:53 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 5 replies · 290+ views
    Yahoo! News ^ | 5/12/04 | Katherine Pfleger Shrader - AP
    WASHINGTON - The CIA (news - web sites) did not have a trained corps of interrogators until the war on terror began and turned in part to contractors to handle the surge of detainees, including in Iraq (news - web sites). Some of those sent in are now under investigation in prisoner deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan (news - web sites). Officials are considering one case as a homicide and have referred it to the Justice Department (news - web sites). In interviews, intelligence veterans who spent decades with the CIA said interrogators are needed mostly during conflicts when a...
  • No Evidence Brass OK'd Prison Abuse, Probe Finds

    05/12/2004 1:03:32 PM PDT · by Libertarian444 · 31 replies · 120+ views
    Los Angeles Times | May 12, 2004 | Richard A Serrano
    Investigator: No Evidence Abuse Was Authorized By Richard A. Serrano, Times Staff Writer A key Army investigator in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal has testified that he found "absolutely no evidence" that the military chain of command authorized any of the mistreatment of detainees, but rather that it was the work of a small band of guards "just having fun at the expense of the prisoners," according to court-martial documents obtained today by the Los Angeles Times.
  • Additional Guards Face Courts-Martial for Abu Ghraib Abuse (CJTF-7 recap, Karbala +)

    05/12/2004 12:47:03 PM PDT · by Ragtime Cowgirl · 11 replies · 141+ views
    CJTF-7 via DoD-AFPS ^ | May 12, 2004 | Sgt. 1st Class Doug Sample
    Additional Guards Face Courts-Martial for Abu Ghraib Abuse By Sgt. 1st Class Doug Sample, USAAmerican Forces Press ServiceWASHINGTON, May 12, 2004 -- Two more U.S. soldiers will face military courts- martial in the abuse of Iraqi detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison, coalition officials in Baghdad said today. Military spokesman Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt said that Sgt. Jarval S. Davis and Staff Sgt. Ivan L. Frederick II face five charges each. The five charges against Davis are: conspiracy to maltreat subordinates, dereliction of duty for negligently failing to protect detainees from abuse, maltreatment of detainees, rendering false official...
  • Female GI In Abuse Photos Talks

    05/12/2004 7:21:05 AM PDT · by NYC Republican · 236 replies · 404+ views
    CBSNEWS ^ | 5/12/04 | CBSNEWS.com
    Army Pfc. Lynndie England, seen worldwide in photographs that show her smiling and pointing at naked Iraqi prisoners, said she was ordered to pose for the photos, and felt "kind of weird" in doing so. In an exclusive interview with Brian Maass of Denver CBS station KCNC-TV, England also confirmed that abuses worse than those depicted in the photos were carried out at the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, but she declined to discuss them. England, 21, repeatedly insisted that her actions were dictated by "persons in my higher chain of command." In the photos, England is seen smiling,...