http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=UI02YK5I3DTKACRBAEZSFEY?type=topNews&storyID=8336423
Saar also recalled interrogation techniques he witnessed at Guantanamo, including one previously reported incident where a female officer behaved in an overtly sexual fashion while interrogating a devout Muslim, at one point smearing ink which she told the detainee was her menstrual blood on his face.

...subtle. :/

http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=1026445&tw=wn_wire_story
The CIA will no longer be allowed to hold unregistered "ghost" detainees at U.S. military prisons such as Iraq's Abu Ghraib, the Pentagon's top intelligence official said on Thursday.

...yay.

Army investigators who first disclosed that the CIA concealed dozens of unregistered detainees at Abu Ghraib blamed the spy agency's practices for a loss of accountability, abuse and a poisoned atmosphere at the infamous facility.

Let's use this as your central Guantanamo thread, so that you don't have to set up a new one for each new breaking news about it.

Abu Ghraib figure blames superior for abuse
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=8478182
The former commander of the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq blamed a ranking officer for introducing the use of human pyramids and dog leashes in the abuse of detainees and said in an interview on Thursday that abuse may be continuing there.

Col. Janis Karpinski, a former one-star Army Reserve general who was punished in the scandal, said she had no idea what was going on at the prison and blamed Gen. Geoffrey Miller for the methods that were used to humiliate detainees.

In the ABC interview, Karpinski suggested that abuse might still be occurring at the prison.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/3182989
"The May 9 [Newsweek] report quoted unnamed sources as saying that military investigators probing abuse at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, found that interrogators had placed copies of the Koran on toilets and "in at least one case, flushed a holy book down the toilet.""

"Newsweek said a Pentagon spokesman told the magazine late last week that the story was wrong and that the military has found no credible evidence to support separate allegations of Koran desecration made by released detainees."

[] "Newsweek magazine today said it may have erred in a May 9 report that said U.S. interrogators desecrated the Koran at Guantanamo Bay, and apologized to victims of deadly violence sparked by the article."

http://hrw.org/backgrounder/usa/gitmo1004/3.htm
"Detainees also complained about the interference with their ability to pray and the lack of respect given to their religion. For example, the British detainees state that they were never given prayer mats and initially were not provided Korans. They also complained that when the Korans were provided, the guards "would kick the Koran, throw it into the toilet and generally disrespect it."[27]"

"[27] Statement of Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal and Rhuhel Ahmed, "Detention in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay," released publicly on August 4, 2004, para. 72, 74, available online at: http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/reports/docs/Gitmo-compositestatementFINAL23july04.pdf, accessed on August 19, 2004.
The disrespect of the Koran by guards at Camp X-Ray was one of the factors prompting a hunger strike. Ibid., para. 111-117."

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44300
"After taking heat from several members of the Bush administration and countless bloggers, Newsweek today officially retracted its story that U.S. interrogators desecrated the Quran at Guantanamo Bay by flushing one down the toilet."

"Up to this afternoon, the magazine refused to retract the story, instead apologizing in an editor's note by Editor Mark Whitaker."

""Based on what we know now, we are retracting our original story that an internal military investigation had uncovered Quran abuse at Guantanamo Bay," Whitaker said in statement released this afternoon."

UK court allows terror suspect to be sent to US
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-05-17T123951Z_01_L17140478_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-SECURITY-BRITAIN-USA-DC.XML
"A British court agreed on Tuesday to allow a computer expert to be sent to the United States to be tried for allegedly funding Islamic militants"

"the United States has the right to seek Ahmad's extradition under a new British law, passed in 2003, which allows American prosecutors to request such a move without presenting their evidence to a British court."

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=365722&category=LIFE&BCCode=HOME&newsdate=5/31/2005
"Bob Woodward never revealed the identity of his Nixon Administration source known only as "Deep Throat" to his then-boss at The Washington Post, Harry M. Rosenfeld."

""The importance is to retain the integrity of confidential sources," Rosenfeld said."

"Rosenfeld said the Bush Administration in particular has implemented "a plan to intimidate the press," and unnamed sources are often the only way to get information out of government."

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Citizen_groups_ask_Congress_to_file_formal_%22Resolution_of_Inquiry%22_against_Bush
"A coalition of citizen groups will ask Congress to file a formal "Resolution of Inquiry", the first necessary legal step to determine whether U.S. President Bush has committed impeachable offenses."

Torture is just an instrument of state terror
http://www.rabble.ca/columnists_full.shtml?x=39306
"The aim of torture is to dehumanize the victim, break his/her will, and at the same time, set horrific examples for those who come in contact with the victim. In this way, torture can break or damage the will and coherence of entire communities."

"No one claims that torture is an effective interrogation tool"

"a recently declassified memo written by an FBI official in Guantánamo states that extreme coercion produced “nothing more than what FBI got using simple investigative techniques.”"

http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/543/543_05_TortureAir.shtml
"Arar was held in a cell in Amman for 10 hours. He pleaded with his captors to release him or allow him to talk with a lawyer. They refused. He was placed in a van and driven across the border into Syria, where he was handed over to a secret police unit. He was taken to a dark underground cell, and immediately, his interrogators began to beat him with battery cables. The beatings went on, day after day.

A year later, Arar was released by the Syrians at the behest of the Canadian government. He was never charged with a crime."

"Arar is one of at least 150 people the CIA has captured and taken to other countries in a covert program known as “extraordinary rendition.”"

The second memo
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/06/13/BL2005061300982_2.html
""The warning, in a leaked Cabinet Office briefing paper, said Tony Blair had already agreed to back military action to get rid of Saddam Hussein at a summit at the Texas ranch of President George W Bush three months earlier.

"The briefing paper, for participants at a meeting of Blair's inner circle on July 23, 2002, said that since regime change was illegal it was 'necessary to create the conditions' which would make it legal.""

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=healthNews&storyID=2005-06-23T191703Z_01_N23406453_RTRIDST_0_HEALTH-SECURITY-GUANTANAMO-HEALTH-DC.XML
"Health professionals caring for the prisoners at Guantanamo have been encouraged to tell military officials there about relevant health information, Bloche and Marks alleged.

"Health information has been routinely available to behavioral science consultants and others who are responsible for crafting and carrying out interrogation strategies," they wrote in their commentary.

"Through early 2003 (and possibly later), interrogators themselves had access to medical records. And since late 2002, psychiatrists and psychologists have been part of a strategy that employs extreme stress, combined with behavior-shaping rewards, to extract actionable intelligence from resistant captives,""

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/13/politics/13gitmo.html?
"General Miller was deeply involved in the handling of detainees, first at Guantánamo, where he earned credit for improving interrogation techniques and for the treatment of prisoners, and later in Iraq, where he was sent in August 2003 to suggest ways to improve interrogations immediately before the worst abuses at Abu Ghraib prison."