Congressman admits interrogating Guantánamo detainees

[unhappycamper]

Congressman admits interrogating Guantánamo detainees
Posted on Thursday, 11.18.10
BY CAROL ROSENBERG

It's one of the Pentagon's most sensitive and carefully guarded secrets: Who interrogated the prisoners at Guantánamo?

So it came as a surprise last month when a Pennsylvania congressman seeking reelection campaigned as the only member of the U.S. Congress to have interrogated a Guantánamo detainee.

It didn't work. Rep. Chris Carney, a Blue Dog Democrat, lost his mainly Republican district to a former federal prosecutor.

But the revelation raised eyebrows in Washington, where Carney served on the Homeland Security Committee, as well as questions about the Pentagon's effort to keep the identities of the people who have conducted Guantánamo interrogations secret.

Military commissions judges shield the interrogators' names and call them only by aliases such as Interrogator No. 1.

[mmonk]

1. It's so hard to control every secret even when you have a secret

government like the United States. Some of them like to incriminate themselves.

[xchrom]

2. Every time I think things can't be more broken

I read something like this.

[Mojorabbit]

3. I don't know what to say to this. Unbelievable. nt

[Mojorabbit]

4. dupe

[Solly Mack]

5. K&R