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FBI Email re: Response to Steve McCraw’s Email on Detainee Abuse and Maltreatment at Guantanamo Bay
July 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4960
This email is a response to a Bureau wide memo sent by Steve McCraw to illicit information from FBI agents who toured through Guantanamo Bay to report any suspected or witnessed abuse of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. The agent related the following: Detainees would be placed in the interview room approximately 6-8 hours prior to the scheduled interview. The air conditioning in the room would be turned down to as low as 55 degrees. Detainees restricted from movement with hand and leg cuffs, and a chain-bolted to the floor, which would prevent them from moving around the room. I vaguely recall seeing detainees in rooms by themselves in conditions which I believe included uncomfortably cold environments.
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- Unknown date, Unknown, Guantanamo
- FBI agent responds to request for agents who have toured through Guantanamo to report any possible detainee abuse. The agent related the following: I took part in some discussions about a practice which had been utilized in which the detainee would be placed in the interview room approximately 6-8 hours prior to the scheduled interview. The air conditioning in the room would be turned down to as low as 55 degrees. It was common practice to have the detainees restricted from movement with hand and leg cuffs, and a chain-bolted to the floor, which would prevent them from moving around the room, which in this case would prevent them from adjusting the air conditioning temperature. My interview team did not participate in this practice, but I vaguely recall seeing detainees in rooms by themselves in conditions which I believe included uncomfortably cold environments. There were occasions when our interview team would show up for an interview and the temperature in the room was uncomfortably cold.