ACLU, through a FOIA request, has received some more FBI internal emails regarding Department of Defense "interrogation techniques" in Guantanamo and Iraq.
If there were any questions left, where the torture orders originated, these documents do make it clear beyond any doubt.
From: … (FBI)
To: … (FBI)
…
This instruction begs the question of what constitutes "abuse". We assume this does not include lawful interrogation techniques authorized by Executive Order. We are aware that prior to the revision in policy last week, an Executive Order signed by President Bush authorized the following interrogation techniques among others sleep "management", use of MWD (military working dogs), "stress positions" such as half squats, "environmental manipulation" such as the use of loud music, sensory deprivation through the use of hoods, etc. We assume the OGC instructions does not include the reporting of these authorized interrogation techniques, and that the use of these techniques does not constitute "abuse".
Email from "On scene Commander–Baghdad.” (pdf)
To better imagine the techniques authorized and signed by President Bush into the Executive Order this report is helpful:
From: … (FBI)
To: … (FBI)As requested, here is a brief summary of what I observed at GTMO
On a couple of occasions, I entered interview rooms to find a detainee chained hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor, with no chair, food, or water. Most times they had urinated or defecated on themselves, and had been left there for 18 – 24 hours or more. On one occasion, the air conditioning had been turned down so far and the temperature was so cold in the room, that the barefooted detainee was shaking with cold. When I asked the MP’s what was going on, I was told that interrogators from the day prior had ordered this treatment, and the detainee was not to be moved. On another occasion the A/C had been turned off, making the temperature in the unventilated room probably well over 100 degrees. The detainee was almost unconsciousness on the floor, with a pile of hair next to him. He had apparently been literally pulling his own hair out throughout the night. On another occasion, not only was the temperature unbearably hot, but extremely loud rap music was being played in the room, and had been since the day before, with the detainee chained hand and foot in the fetal position on the tile floor.
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