Putting the System on Trial
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"Fareek, did you know that I am having my period?. . . How do you feel
about me touching you now?" [As she withdrew her hand from her
panties, it appeared as if it were covered with her blood. She asked him one
last time who told him to learn to fly, who sent him to flight school.] "You
fuck," she hissed, wiping what he believed was menstrual blood on his
face. . . . "What do you think your brothers will think of you in the morn-
ing when they see an American woman's menstrual blood on your face?"
Brooke said, standing up, "By the way, we've shut off the water to your cell
for tonight, so the blood will still be there tomorrow," she tossed out as we
left the booth. . . . She had done what she thought was best to get the infor-
mation her bosses were asking for. . . . What the fuck did I just do? What
the fuck were we doing in this place?
Yes, indeed, a very good question. However, there was never a clear answer
for Saar or for anyone else.
O t h e r Revelations of Gitmo Crimes and Misdemeanors
Erik Saar reveals a number of other practices that were deceptive, unethical, and
illegal. He and the others on the interrogation teams were under strict orders
never to speak to the International Red Cross observers. He was ordered to stay
away from them. Of "ghost detainees" he says, "There were a chunk of them, we
had no idea how or why they came to Gitmo. There was no evidence of their cul-
pability. Many were despondent." He also reported, "There were also young chil-
dren at Gitmo, kept outside of the main Camp Delta. They had no interrogation
value, but were kept there for a long time." No one has ever reported on children
prisoners at Gitmo, who had to have been brought there from Iraq and
Afghanistan.
"False setups" were arranged when visiting dignitaries were scheduled to
visit to observe a "typical" interrogation. A fictional setting was arranged that
would make the scene look normal and ordinary. It was reminiscent of the model
Jewish camp created by the Nazis in their concentration camp at Teresienstadt,
Czechoslovakia, where they fooled the International Red Cross observers and oth-
ers into believing the inmates were all happy with their relocation. Erik Saar de-
scribes that everything was sanitized in the "A-OK" setup:
One of the things I learned when I joined the intelligence team was that
when a V.I.P. visit would take place, meaning it could be a general or could
be an executive from the senior government service, one of the intelli-
gence agencies, maybe, or even a Congressional delegation, there was a
concerted effort to explain to the interrogators that they were to find a de-
tainee who had previously been cooperative and put him in the interroga-
tion booth at the time when the V.I.P. would be visiting and sitting in the
observation room. Essentially, they were to find someone who had been
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