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Sunday, 05 April 2009 10:48 |
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The Denbeauxs of the famous Seton Hall Report, a study of Guantanamo detainees that refuted many of the governments claims about their capture and crimes,( here is a link to that report :(http://law.shu.edu/aaafinal.pdf ) have released a new report . Above is a link to the press release. The report is clear and not that long . One of the new pieces of incontrovertible evidence in the report is that General Schmidt knowingly lied in his testimony before Congress. From the press release:
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April 1, 2009 |
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SETON HALL LAW STUDENTS REVEAL THAT GENERALS KNEW
GUANTÁNAMO DETAINEES WERE TORTURED |
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FBI Agents Repeatedly Reported on Inhumane Interrogation Techniques at
GTMO Resulting in Unreliable and Counterproductive; Information
General Schmidt's Investigation Uncovered Numerous Abuses Which Were Omitted from Both His Report and His Congressional Testimony
Newark, NJ - Today Seton Hall Law delivered a report establishing that military officials at the highest levels were aware of the abusive interrogation techniques employed at the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay (GTMO), and misled Congress during testimony. In addition, FBI personnel reported that the information obtained from inhumane interrogations was unreliable.
Professor Mark Denbeaux, Director of the Seton Hall Law Center for Policy and Research, commented on the findings: "Who knew about the torture at GTMO? Turns out they all did. It's not news that the interrogators were torturing and abusing detainees. We've got FBI reports attesting to this. But now we've discovered that the highest levels knew about the torture and abuse, and covered it up.
"Abu Ghraib was the flashpoint and provoked the FBI to formally hand its reports to the DOD, which in turn forced the DOD to respond with what became known as the Schmidt Report. Schmidt's investigation was essentially a whitewash, but, ironically, the abuse was so pervasive that his team turned up still more incidents. To conceal the problems documented by both the FBI and the military, the DOD published an incomplete, sanitized report, culminating in Schmidt testifying before Congress that there was no torture or abuse at GTMO.
"Five generals were either complicit in the abusive interrogation techniques or were central figures in their cover-up. They concealed these practices from Congress, to which they are ultimately accountable. They undermined our democracy, and undercut America's claim to the moral high ground in the fight against terror." | |
Click here for a link to the actual report
TORTURE: WHO KNEW
An Analysis of the FBI and Department of Defense Reactions to Harsh Interrogation Methods at Guantanamo From the conclusion of the report:
CONCLUSION
Although FBI agents described hundreds of instances of improper conduct by Defense Department interrogators at Guantánamo Bay, and senior FBI officials were privy to such reports as early as 2002, the FBI did not confront the Department of Defense with the agents’ complaints until more than two years later in 2004—and even then, the FBI provided the Department with less than half of those complaints. In response, the Defense Department has produced a staggeringly incomplete and therefore inaccurate report—upon which Congress has relied—that summarily concludes that there has been “no evidence of torture or inhumane treatment at Guantánamo.
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