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FBI Email re: Response to Steve McCraw’s Email on Detainee Abuse and Maltreatment at Guantanamo Bay

July 23, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4957
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. The agent stated "I did not personally observe abusive behavior towards detainees while at GTMO [Guantanamo]. As indicated in my EC instances of reported abuse by detainees were reported via interview FD-302s". The agent also includes in this memo the following account of detainee abuse: "a detainee alleged a female guard removed her blouse and while pressing her body, against a shackled and restrained detainee from behind, handled his genitalia and wiped menstrual blood on his head and face as a form of punishment for lack of cooperation".
AUTHORING AGENCIES:
RECEIVING AGENCIES:
OFFICIALS MENTIONED:
INCIDENTS OF ABUSE MENTIONED:
  • Unknown date, Unknown, Guantanamo
    • An FBI agent in a memo reported hearing the following account of detainee abuse: "a detainee alleged a female guard removed her blouse and while pressing her body, against a shackled and restrained detainee from behind, handled his genitalia and wiped menstrual blbod on his head and face as a form of punishment for lack of cooperation".