A military investigation into FBI allegations of abuse at Guantanamo Bay, presented before the Senate Armed Services Committee today, failed to adequately investigate charges of detainee abuse at the Naval base prison, Human Rights First said.
"This investigation fits the pattern of the ones preceding it -- failure to interview key witnesses and failure to assign accountability up the chain of command,” says Elisa Massimino, Washington Director of Human Rights First. ”General Miller now joins the growing number of those involved in the torture scandal who have escaped reprimand and instead been promoted."
“It's mind-boggling that those investigating these abuses can at the same time admit that prisoners were shackled in stress positions and in extreme heat and cold, that interrogators sexually humiliated and taunted detainees, yet conclude that there were no violations of law and policy. Something is terribly wrong with that,” said Massimino.
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