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New York Times

May 17, 2008

Report faults FBI handling of agents' Gitmo complaints: paper

“It was difficult to tell agents what the rules were because we didn't know ourselves”

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new Justice Department report praises FBI agents for refusing to join in the U.S. military's abusive questioning of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, Iraq and Afghanistan, but faults the bureau's for responding slowly to complaints from its own agents about the tactics, The New York Times reported on Saturday.

Citing people with knowledge of the still-secret report, expected to be released as early as Tuesday, the Times reported that the department's inspector general's office is said to have concluded that no FBI agents participated in the rough interrogations by the military. Read more

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