George W. Bush terá autorizado utilização de tortura

[Ermo [RIP]]

FBI E-Mail Refers to Presidential Order Authorizing Inhumane Interrogation Techniques
December 20, 20

NEW YORK -- A document released for the first time today by the American Civil Liberties Union suggests that President Bush issued an Executive Order authorizing the use of inhumane interrogation methods against detainees in Iraq. Also released by the ACLU today are a slew of other records including a December 2003 FBI e-mail that characterizes methods used by the Defense Department as "torture" and a June 2004 "Urgent Report" to the Director of the FBI that raises concerns that abuse of detainees is being covered up.

"These documents raise grave questions about where the blame for widespread detainee abuse ultimately rests," said ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero. "Top government officials can no longer hide from public scrutiny by pointing the finger at a few low-ranking soldiers."

The documents were obtained after the ACLU and other public interest organizations filed a lawsuit against the government for failing to respond to a Freedom of Information Act request.

The two-page e-mail that references an Executive Order states that the President directly authorized interrogation techniques including sleep deprivation, stress positions, the use of military dogs, and "sensory deprivation through the use of hoods, etc." The ACLU is urging the White House to confirm or deny the existence of such an order and immediately to release the order if it exists. The FBI e-mail, which was sent in May 2004 from "On Scene Commander--Baghdad" to a handful of senior FBI officials, notes that the FBI has prohibited its agents from employing the techniques that the President is said to have authorized.

Another e-mail, dated December 2003, describes an incident in which Defense Department interrogators at Guantánamo Bay impersonated FBI agents while using "torture techniques" against a detainee. The e-mail concludes "If this detainee is ever released or his story made public in any way, DOD interrogators will not be held accountable because these torture techniques were done [sic] the 'FBI' interrogators. The FBI will [sic] left holding the bag before the public."

The document also says that no "intelligence of a threat neutralization nature" was garnered by the "FBI" interrogation, and that the FBI's Criminal Investigation Task Force (CITF) believes that the Defense Department's actions have destroyed any chance of prosecuting the detainee. The e-mail's author writes that he or she is documenting the incident "in order to protect the FBI."

"The methods that the Defense Department has adopted are illegal, immoral, and counterproductive," said ACLU staff attorney Jameel Jaffer. "It is astounding that these methods appear to have been adopted as a matter of policy by the highest levels of government."

The June 2004 "Urgent Report" addressed to the FBI Director is heavily redacted. The legible portions of the document appear to describe an account given to the FBI's Sacramento Field Office by an FBI agent who had "observed numerous physical abuse incidents of Iraqi civilian detainees," including "strangulation, beatings, [and] placement of lit cigarettes into the detainees ear openings." The document states that "[redacted] was providing this account to the FBI based on his knowledge that [redacted] were engaged in a cover-up of these abuses."

The release of these documents follows a federal court order that directed government agencies to comply with a year-old request under the Freedom of Information Act filed by the ACLU, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Physicians for Human Rights, Veterans for Common Sense and Veterans for Peace. The New York Civil Liberties Union is co-counsel in the case.

Other documents released by the ACLU today include:

An FBI email regarding DOD personnel impersonating FBI officials during interrogations. The e-mail refers to a "ruse" and notes that "all of those [techniques] used in these scenarios" were approved by the Deputy Secretary of Defense. (Jan. 21, 2004)


Another FBI agent's account of interrogations at Guantánamo in which detainees were shackled hand and foot in a fetal position on the floor. The agent states that the detainees were kept in that position for 18 to 24 hours at a time and most had "urinated or defacated [sic]" on themselves. On one occasion, the agent reports having seen a detainee left in an unventilated, non-air conditioned room at a temperature "probably well over a hundred degrees." The agent notes: "The detainee was almost unconscious on the floor, with a pile of hair next to him. He had apparently been literally pulling his own hair out throughout the night." (Aug. 2, 2004)


An e-mail stating that an Army lawyer "worked hard to cwrite [sic] a legal justification for the type of interrogations they (the Army) want to conduct" at Guantánamo Bay. (Dec. 9, 2002)


An e-mail noting the initiation of an FBI investigation into the alleged rape of a juvenile male detainee at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. (July 28, 2004)


An FBI agent's account of an interrogation at Guantánamo - an interrogation apparently conducted by Defense Department personnel - in which a detainee was wrapped in an Israeli flag and bombarded with loud music and strobe lights. (July 30, 2004)



The ACLU and its allies are scheduled to go to court again this afternoon, where they will seek an order compelling the CIA to turn over records related to an internal investigation into detainee abuse. Although the ACLU has received more than 9,000 documents from other agencies, the CIA refuses to confirm or deny even the existence of many of the records that the ACLU and other plaintiffs have requested. The CIA is reported to have been involved in abusing detainees in Iraq and at secret CIA detention facilities around the globe.

The lawsuit is being handled by Lawrence Lustberg and Megan Lewis of the New Jersey-based law firm Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, P.C. Other attorneys in the case are Jaffer, Amrit Singh and Judy Rabinovitz of the ACLU; Art Eisenberg and Beth Haroules of the NYCLU; and Barbara Olshansky and Jeff Fogel of CCR.

The documents referenced above can be found at: http://www.aclu.org/torturefoia/released/fbi.html.


( in http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=17216&c=206 )

[Quetzalcoatl]

Ainda nao percebi como ha pessoas que defendem os que defendiam um regime como o que havia no Iraque...!!! E nao me venham dizer que ao actuarmos assim estamos a ser piores do que eles,pois isso é irreal!! Se voçes sabiam atraves de artigos e reportagens o que REALMENTE acontecia naquele regime hitlariano entao deviam ser mauzinhos como noutros topicos aqui do forum e afirmar que as torturas sao justas e legitimas para obter informaçoes .... (para mim ate nem que fosse so para aqueles animais sofrer)... Alem disso em qq guerra existe tortura...é quase um acto banal subsequente da ausencia de paz...
blabla ... Aquela parte do globo esta a ser torturada desde o tempo daquele urso judeu!!! Portanto ja estao habituados....

[Razor]

Este post devia ter sido inserido na secçao "Geral" mas adiante... sinceramente já estou + que farto deste tipo de conversas, já nao posso ouvir todas estas queixas que o Bush fez isto ou fez aquilo, se nao gostam dele nao venham atazanar-nos a paciencia! Irra, que já nao há pachorra!

[MeTaL_MaNiAc [RIP]]

caguem-se nisso e matem a merda do bush... dêem-lhe uma facada no bucho!! hehe

[AK47 [RIP]]

Por essa ordem de ideias, a tortura infligida a portugueses no pós-25 de Abril, também seria legitima pois não passavamos de uns animais, com um regime "hiteleriano!...
É mesmo triste e de ignorantes desculpar a tortura aplicada a CIVIS iraquianos, que são presos aleatoriamente, muitos dos quais nem tinham nada a ver com o regime do Saddam, pelo facto de ter existido lá uma ditadura brutal... Já agora, aproveitem e torturem os alemães, os timorenses, os chilenos, os ucranianos, os afegãos, os italianos, os espanhois,etc, etc, etc...

E sim, deixem de denunciar o que o BUsh faz mal, afinal nós nem temos nada a ver com o resto do mundo que ele anda a foder!

[Razor]

Ainda bem que concordas!

[Ego Liberare [RIP]]

AK47 concordo plenamente contigo, é necessário continuar a denunciar estas coisas, mesmo que alguns se possam sentir incomodados/enfastiados.

[Einherjer]

alguém aqui gosta de marduk?

[Morgana]

A existência do Bush é um acto de tortura per se.

[Ermo [RIP]]

Este post devia ter sido inserido na secçao "Geral" mas adiante... sinceramente já estou + que farto deste tipo de conversas, já nao posso ouvir todas estas queixas que o Bush fez isto ou fez aquilo, se nao gostam dele nao venham atazanar-nos a paciencia! Irra, que já nao há pachorra!

Nao sei se hei de rir ... ou de ficar levemente pensativo (isto passa-me num instante). Com essa treta toda ... eu respondo no mesmo tom : Se nao gostas de ouvir noticias/denuncias sobre o teu querido Bush, se preferes viver indiferente e alienado dentro de um gobelé no país da Alice ... nao venhas tu atazanar a paciência de quem se mostra indignado.

[LS [RIP]]

alguém aqui gosta de marduk?

tem umas cenas giras e tal

[Ego Liberare [RIP]]

Este post devia ter sido inserido na secçao "Geral" mas adiante... sinceramente já estou + que farto deste tipo de conversas, já nao posso ouvir todas estas queixas que o Bush fez isto ou fez aquilo, se nao gostam dele nao venham atazanar-nos a paciencia! Irra, que já nao há pachorra!

Nao sei se hei de rir ... ou de ficar levemente pensativo (isto passa-me num instante). Com essa treta toda ... eu respondo no mesmo tom : Se nao gostas de ouvir noticias/denuncias sobre o teu querido Bush, se preferes viver indiferente e alienado dentro de um gobelé no país da Alice ... nao venhas tu atazanar a paciência de quem se mostra indignado.

ditto.

[Einherjer]

concordo que há certas práticas que devem sempre ser denúnciadas...

mas também concordo que há espaços mais apropriados para o fazer...

há sempre escândalos a contar, e recontar e afins... e ainda mais sitios para os divulgar e sentirmo-nos ultrajados com tais coisas...

não quero com isto dizer que não se deva postar aqui tais denúncias, mas também não me parece que se deva por de imediato o rótulo de "dulce ferreira" a quem se quiser refugiar um pouco da "vida lá fora"...

enfim...

ah, já agora, antes que me comecem a crucificar, sou um daqueles que sofrem de anti-americanismo primário, e já me envolvo em suficientes discussões no meu quotidiano na minha constante denúncia àquele imperio do mal para continuar a viver o mesmo aqui...

[Morgana]

Do excuse my ignorance, but... who is Dulce Ferreira?

[Razor]

Cernunnos, meu "querido Bush" a que propósito? Se nao tens argumentos poupa-me a disparates desses. Vai para o forum punkpt, o que nao falta lá sao intolerantes politicamente correctos como tu!