At least it's warmer than Siberia!

Memos Say 2 Officials Who Saw Prison Abuse Were Threatened
By Neil A. Lewis, Dec 7, 2004, The New York Times

"WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 - Two Defense Department intelligence officials reported observing brutal treatment of Iraqi insurgents captured in Baghdad last June, several weeks after disclosures of abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison there created a worldwide uproar, according to a memorandum disclosed today."

"The memorandum, written by the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency to a senior Pentagon official, said that when the two members of his agency objected to the treatment, they were threatened and told to keep quiet by other military interrogators. The memorandum said that the Defense Intelligence Agency officials saw prisoners being brought in to a detention center with burn marks on their backs and complaining about sore kidneys."

“ … Other memorandums disclosed this week, including some released by the A.C.L.U., showed that the interrogation and detention system at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had drawn strong objections from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which argued that the coercive techniques used there were unnecessary and produced unreliable information. The Associated Press reported Monday that one F.B.I. official wrote in a memorandum of witnessing a series of coercive procedures at Guantanamo, including a female interrogator squeezing the genitals of a detainee and bending back his thumbs painfully.”

“…The disclosure of memorandums by the A.C.L.U., as well as reports of a recent complaint about torture at Guantánamo by the International Committee of the Red Cross, have increasingly contradicted the military's statements about the limited extent of harsh treatment of prisoners.”

OK then, we have the DIA, the FBI, and those wusses, the Red Cross, all united in saying that the military is torturing these bastards down at Gitmo. The military’s response: “Who us?”

Welcome to Amerika!