Interrogator Details Pre-Abu Ghraib Abuses
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WASHINGTON — A military interrogation expert, Air Force Colonel Steven Kleinman, told Congress yesterday that before the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, he witnessed interrogations of Iraqi detainees that he considers violations of the Geneva Conventions.
One of those interrogations was conducted by an Air Force civilian and a contractor employed by his own organization, the Joint Personnel Recovery Agency. It had sent a small team to Iraq in September 2003 to help a special forces task force improve its interrogations of stubborn prisoners. The team was asked to demonstrate an interrogation on an Iraqi prisoner. It was an unusual role for the organization, which trains soldiers how to resist interrogations, not conduct them.
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