AUTHORITIES at Guantanamo Bay staged interrogations of detainees for visiting politicians and generals to give the impression that valuable intelligence was regularly being gathered, says a former US Army translator at the camp.
Sergeant Erik Saar told CBS television's 60 Minutes that he believed "only a few dozen" of the 600 detainees at the camp were terrorists and that little information was obtained from them.
Sgt Saar writes about his time at the camp in the book Inside the Wire: A Military Intelligence Soldier's Eyewitness Account of Life at Guantanamo, to be published next week by Penguin.
~I must remember: Life for people in power is never (like) a movie. That way of perceiving the world is for the inexperienced media-dependent young or the spiritually or mentally disenfranchised. Life for those at the top is more like theater, a play. Where everyone knows what role they're playing and what words to say. No jumpcuts, few surprises.
Posted by Cieciel at April 29, 2005 09:44 AM