Lawyers for Ali al-Marri, a detainee held at the Navy brig in Charleston, South Carolina, will assert in court papers that al-Marri was systematically abused and informed that there were numerous videotapes depicting the FBI and Defense Intelligence Agency’s handling of him. In a related matter, Defense Department officials are reviewing interrogations at military facilities from Iraq to Guantánamo Bay, and have found approximately 50 tapes, including one that depicts a detainee being forcibly gagged. In February, Seton Hall Lawâs Center for Policy and Research reported that it had discovered “new evidence of a longstanding government practice of recording interrogations at Guantánamo Bay,” suggesting that “the two CIA tapes that were destroyed were only a tiny fraction of perhaps 24,000 recorded interrogations.” (Washington Post, New York Times, Seton Hall University School of Law)
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=177955