WASHINGTON - U.S. law enforcement agents at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison for terrorism suspects concluded that the military's aggressive questioning yielded information that was "suspect at best," according to newly released portions of an FBI (news - web sites) document.
That conclusion is contained in an internal FBI e-mail message, dated May 10, 2004, that also said the FBI had made it known to Pentagon (news - web sites) officials in 2002 that the FBI "has been successful for many years obtaining confessions via non-confrontational interviewing techniques."
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Another FBI e-mail, also dated May 10, 2004, said that in weekly Justice Department meetings, officials had often discussed the military's interrogation techniques and "how they were not effective or producing intel that was reliable." (The term "intel" is short for intelligence.)
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"Today we were able to obtain some information that had previously been blacked out in an FBI document critical of DoD (Department of Defense (news - web sites)) interrogation practices," Levin said. "As I suspected, the previously withheld information had nothing to do with protecting intelligence sources or methods, and everything to do with protecting DoD from embarrassment."
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