CIA Did Not Want Prisoners To Tell The Truth

Former FBI agent Ali Soufan was one of the first to interrogate terror suspects at Guantanamo. He later left the prison and criticized torture methods used by the CIA. He accuses the government of turning interrogations of inmates over to outsourced amateurs.

Ali Soufan, a 43-year-old US citizen, worked as a special agent for the FBI until 2005 as part of its efforts to combat terrorism. In March 2002, he and a colleague were the first to interrogate Abu Zubaydah, who at that point was considered the most important al-Qaida prisoner held by the Americans. Because Soufan was born in Lebanon and speaks Arabic, and because he could quote the Koran during questioning, he was able to build up trust with the prisoner.

He was able to glean extensive information from Zubaydah. Nevertheless, the CIA still chose Zubayadah as the first prisoner on whom to test its "enhanced interrogation techniques". He was forced to undergo waterboarding and other cruel measures at least 83 times. In the prison where Zubaydah was interrogated, Soufan met James Mitchell, one of the two highly controversial men behind the CIA interrogation programs. In protest over the torture methods, Soufan left Guantanamo in the summer of 2002.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/former-fbi-official-ali-soufan-condemns-guantanamo-torture-a-1014475.html

This reminds me of what NCIS did when 3 prisoners at GTMO supposedly killed themselves in an alleged act of "asymmetrical warfare". According to research supervised by law professor Scott Horton, the deaths of the prisoners were initially investigated by the cadre at GTMO using standard methods (conducting interviews, having witnesses write statements, etc.). But when NCIS took over, all that was thrown out the window. Key witnesses were never interviewed, and an apparently sham report was prepared in its place:

Four members of the Military Intelligence unit assigned to guard Camp Delta, including a decorated non-commissioned Army officer who was on duty as sergeant of the guard the night of June 9, have furnished an account dramatically at odds with the NCIS report—a report for which they were neither interviewed nor approached.

All four soldiers say they were ordered by their commanding officer not to speak out, and all four soldiers provide evidence that authorities initiated a cover-up within hours of the prisoners’ deaths. Army Staff Sergeant Joseph Hickman and men under his supervision have disclosed evidence in interviews with Harper’s Magazine that strongly suggests the three prisoners who died on June 9 had been transported to another location prior to their deaths. The guards’ accounts also reveal the existence of a previously unreported black site at Guantánamo where the deaths, or at least the events that led directly to the deaths, most likely occurred.

http://harpers.org/archive/2010/03/the-guantanamo-suicides/

The US government NEVER does a real investigation. They decide what answer or result they want FIRST, and then they torture, intimidate or ignore witnesses, and fabricate or destroy evidence to support that desired answer or result.

There are honest people in the US military, but they are being overridden by thugs who are acting not unlike Hitler's Gestapo and SS.