Mueller: FBI Didn't Abuse Iraqi Prisoners

Khephra

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Thu May-20-04 12:41 PM
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Mueller: FBI Didn't Abuse Iraqi Prisoners

By CURT ANDERSON
Associated Press Writer

May 20, 2004, 1:13 PM EDT

WASHINGTON -- FBI agents working overseas in Iraq and elsewhere did not participate in any abusive interrogation of prisoners or witness mistreatment, FBI Director Robert Mueller said Thursday.

Bureau guidelines prohibit agents from taking part in interrogations that involve force, threat of force or coercion, Mueller said. Agents are instructed to refuse to participate in any interviews they believe violate those FBI standards.

If agents see abuses, they are expected to report them up the chain of command, Mueller told the Senate Judiciary Committee.

But interviews with FBI agents working in the Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison between October and December 2003 found that none saw or participated in any of the abuses of Iraqi detainees that are now the subject of military and Justice Department investigations, Mueller said.

"None of them witnessed abuses such as we have seen," he said.

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http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-fbi-prisoner-abuse,0,1667592.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

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Ripley

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Thu May-20-04 12:43 PM
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1. Pretty sad day when the FBI has to put out this statement.

Edited on Thu May-20-04 12:44 PM by Ripley

Not to tell us good news. Not to tell us who sent Anthrax to the Senate. Not to tell us how many bad guys are in jail.

But to say "We didn't rape, torture and murder."

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DulceDecorum

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Thu May-20-04 01:09 PM
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2. Hoover did not wear a dress

and I, Robert S. Mueller III, had nothing to do with Salvati case.
http://www.aim.org/aim_report_print/213_0_4_0/
And I support the pResident.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1214-01.htm

So stop saying that.

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keithyboy

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Thu May-20-04 01:23 PM
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6. Tooooooo funny!!!

I am laughing my sides off!

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Tinoire

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Thu May-20-04 01:10 PM
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3. Of course. Karpinski + 6 bad apples are the sole culprits.

Yeah right. Abu-Ghraib was crawling with CIA, FBI, DIA and third party operatives but they were all as pure as snow. Right.

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Just Me

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Thu May-20-04 01:12 PM
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4. CYA runamuck!!! *puke* The buck stops on the backs of the American

people.

Well, fuck all those who have humiliated and disgraced both my people and my country!!!

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TahitiNut

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Thu May-20-04 01:22 PM
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5. It just gives me such a warm fuzzy to know ...

.... that our human rights are safeguarded by "bureau guidelines." :puke: :puke: :puke:
:grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

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