Documents Suggest DOD Failed to Probe Alleged War Crimes

Source: washington independent

Current Inquiries Do Not Extend Beyond CIA Interrogations

New documents obtained by TWI related to the case of Mohammed Jawad, an adolescent tortured by Afghan police and then abused again by U.S. interrogators, suggest that not only certain CIA interrogations, but interrogations by the Department of Defense demand a broader investigation as well.

Last month, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that he would investigate only CIA interrogations that appeared to have violated the agency’s rules and guidance from the Department of Justice. The Jawad case, however, reveals that U.S. military interrogations also violated well-established laws and appear to have violated the Justice Department’s legal guidelines as well. The newly obtained documents also reveal that the Department of Defense repeatedly failed to follow up on complaints by Jawad’s lawyers that its officers were breaking the law.

Jawad, who was about 12 years old when he was captured and accused of throwing a hand grenade at U.S. soldiers, endured “cruel and inhuman” treatment and possibly “torture” while in U.S. custody, a U.S. military commission judge ruled last year, determining that his supposed “confessions” to the crime were therefore unreliable. A federal district court judge later similarly refused to admit the confessions in ruling on Jawad’s habeas corpus petition, and announced that without Jawad’s statements, the government’s case was “riddled with holes.” She eventually granted Jawad’s petition, and Jawad was released on Aug. 24 after nearly seven years in captivity, most at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay.

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According to Judge Stephen Henley, the U.S. Army colonel who ruled on Jawad’s military commission case, Jawad was “moved from cell to cell 112 times from 7 May 2004 to 20 May 2004, on average of about once every three hours.” Jawad was shackled but not interrogated; “the scheme was calculated to profoundly disrupt his mental senses.”

The alleged purpose of the “frequent flyer” program, Judge Henley wrote, was “to create a feeling of hopelessness and despair in the detainee and set the stage for successful interrogations.” But by the time Jawad was subjected to it, he “was of no intelligence value to any government agency,” Judge Henley ruled. “The infliction of the ‘frequent flyer’ technique upon the Accused thus had no legitimate interrogation purpose.” (Significantly, interrogation experts say sleep deprivation doesn’t produce useful information even if the subject does know something.)

Read more: http://washingtonindependent.com/60833/documents-suggest-detainee-abuses-by-defense-department

and the illegalities that resulted in Bush being appointed to the Chief Executive position.

Such a Commission would need to be tasked with investigation of the Junta's use of the DoJ to cover up its criminal activities.
Every judicial appointment and hire needs to be scrutinized for politicization motive. Every Executive order, everything......

...........to another country, 'cause it ain't gonna happen here, NEVER. I would be happy if we could operate on ALL levels like most of the European countries. AND, that ain't gonna happen here either.

Remember when they said Nixon was untouchable because he as the President? Well, Bush isn't even pResident any more.

Wait, sure I can. The headline would have been if they HAD investigated themselves.

Can we send someone to prison at least, please?

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