JERSEY REPRESENT! Seton Hall Law Students Find Gitmo Interrogations Routinely Taped

Props to the students... Just a bit of what they found:

-Federal judges ordered that “all evidence and information regarding the torture, mistreatment, and abuse of detainees now at the United States Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay” be preserved.

-The CIA admits to destroying at least two videotapes.

-Seton Hall Law has discovered records indicating that the more than 24,000 interrogations conducted at Guantánamo were videotaped. However, despite evidence of their existence from its own generals, DOD has yet to admit that these records exist.

-DOD has video cameras in every Guantánamo interrogation room and each interrogation was observed by intelligence agents and other agency monitors on closed circuit units.

-Multiple intelligence-gathering agencies conducted interrogations of detainees in the Guantánamo Bay video-monitored rooms. Agencies include the CIA, Criminal Investigation Task Force, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Defense Intelligence Analysis, Army Criminal Investigative Division, Air Force Office of Special Investigations, and Naval Criminal Investigative Service.

-Detainees routinely refer to the videotapes of their interrogations.

-The government records contain graphic evidence that interrogators regularly used force and violence while interrogating detainees. These same interrogators often hindered videotaping during interrogations by covering and obstructing the surveillance cameras.

-The U.S. government keeps meticulous records of all interrogations, evidenced by FBI agent accounts of detailed logs available to provide detainees’ names, dates and room locations of interrogations, as well as the names of the interviewers. The government systematically logs all video recordings.

Meticulous, detailed records you say? Systematic logs of all video recordings you say? Interesting...