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FBI Email re: Response to Steve McCraw’s Email on Detainee Abuse and Maltreatment at Guantanamo Bay
July 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4971
This email is a response to a Bureau wide memo sent by Steve McCraw to illicit information from FBI agents who toured through Guantanamo Bay to report any suspected or witnessed abuse of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. A member of the FBI’s CIRG Behavioral Analysis Unit stated they never personally witnessed aggressive treatment or interrogations of Guantanamo detainees, but did hear loud music, people yelling loudly from behind closed doors and observed strobe lights in interview rooms. There were also accusations that the Military would present themselves as FBI Agents to detainees and harass them but that was never personally observed by the agent.
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- Unknown date, Unknown, Guantanamo
- A member of the FBI’s CIRG Behavioral Analysis Unit who toured Guantanamo stated “During my tenure there [at Guantanamo], I never personally witnessed aggressive treatment, interrogations or interview techniques on Guantanamo detainees. I did hear loud music being played and people yelling loudly from behind closed doors of interview rooms, but I could not say they were yelling at detainees. I also observed strobe lights in interview rooms on a number of occasions but never observed those being used on detainees. There were also accusations that the Military would present themselves as FBI Agents to detainees and harass them but that was never personally observed by me”.
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