Guantánamo Soldiers Helped Chinese Communist Interrogators
Friday, July 24, 2009
Chinese dictator Hu Jintao with friend Goerge W. Bush
Not only were interrogators from China allowed to question Uighur prisoners held at Guantánamo Bay, but U.S. military personnel helped out in the process, according to testimony provided at a congressional hearing last week.
Three Uighurs who were released from the U.S. detention facility said in written testimony given to the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight that American soldiers assisted by “softening the men up.” This involved waking them up every 15 minutes the night before the Chinese began their interrogations, shackling them in frigid rooms between interrogations, holding them in isolation for up to several weeks after the interrogations, and physically forcing them to have their photos taken against their will.
Jason Pinney, one of the attorneys representing the Uighurs, told lawmakers he was outraged by the Bush administration’s complicity towards the Chinese government in allowing access to his clients. “In the history of our republic, I cannot think of another example where a Communist country was invited in to interrogate, unsupervised, prisoners in a United States detention facility,” he said.
Pinney was not the only outraged person at the hearing. Representatives Dana Rohrbacher (R-CA) and Jim Moran (D-VA) blasted Pentagon officials for the military’s actions. Both congressmen complained bitterly about the fact that foreign agents were given access to the detainees, while members of Congress still, to this day, cannot visit them at Guantánamo Bay, thanks to the Obama administration’s continuation of a Bush-era decision.
-Noel Brinkerhoff
House Threatens Obama Over Chinese Interrogation Of Uighurs In Guantánamo (Andy Worthington.com)
Three Uighurs Talk About Chinese Interrogation At Guantánamo (Andy Worthington.com)
Bush Administration Allowed Chinese to Abuse Anti-Communist Guantánamo Prisoners (by Noel Brinkerhoff and David Wallechinsky, AllGov)
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