Declassified Docs Reveal Pentagon Ignored FBI’s Warnings on Abusive Interrogations
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... in court.” That memo was written in May 2003. The “enhanced” interrogation techniques, such as stress positions and prolonged sleep deprivation, were still being used and justified in memos as late as July 2007. The memo raises several important questions. Did the Office of Legal Counsel lawyers drafting those later memos for the CIA not know about the FBI’s earlier objections? Or did they just dismiss them out of hand? Were they told to ignore those earlier conclusions? Read more: http://washingtonindependent.com/67016/declassified-doc...

New Docs: Pentagon Ignored FBI’s Warnings on Abusive Interrogations
The Political Carnival — ... After reading The Dark Side by Jane Mayer, this isn't all that new. But that's a book, and these are declassified Department of Justice-released documents: Sadly, they reveal that the FBI knew perfectly well — and repeatedly warned Defense Department officials, as well as Justice Department lawyers — that the abusive interrogation techniques being used on detainees at Guantanamo Bay were likely to be ineffective and make subsequent prosecutions impossible. As one memo says, while the interrogation techniques based on tactics ...