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Why would the FBI be the one alleging the military tortured prisoners in Guantanamo? Well, they're playing an old military game: cover your ass. It turns out that military interrogators regularly impersonated FBI agents during interrogation, thereby insulating themselves from later blame, but also with the effect of making the detainee utterly unprosecutable in an US court. Maybe that is part of the reason they still hold hundreds of men without charges or outside contact. But the FBI memos turning up now (thanks to an ACLU lawsuit) are bound to solidify the long known complaints of torture and mismanagement, including:

• Dogs used for intimidation and torture, as in Abu Ghraib, despite the repeated military statements that nothing of the kind of occured.
• FBI (and other agency) impersonation, widespread loss of prosecution chances due to illegal questioning.
• Shackling, exposure, forced nudity, sexual imposition, squalor and living-in-shit.
• And, for good measure, apparently we like to wrap prisoners in an Israeli flag and blast them with extremely loud rap music. Does this even sound like an interrogation with any chance of success? Wrapping them in an Israeli flag? What genius conjured that up? Let's hope it was somebody austere and credible like Paul "Arab men are suspceptible to sexual intimidation" Wolfowitz.
• Restults? Quoting an FBI agent email of Dec. 5, 2003: "These tactics have produced no intelligence of a threat neutralization nature to date and . . . have destroyed any chance of prosecuting this detainee."

source: Washington Post