Check this out--the incredibly cool and smart Judge Andrew Napolitano was on Fox News' "Big Story with John Gibson" today talking about his last-minute (he found out he was going less than 24 hours before departure!) Wednesday morning visit to Guantanamo Bay.
Some highlights of the Judge's report...it's scary stuff:
On learning that about 100 of the detainees have actually traveled to the United States:
“...John, it was terrifying. We received about eight or nine briefings starting on the flight down and concluding with as we were leaving Guantanamo Bay. Clearly the most compelling--and from my point of view the most terrifying--was from the FBI agents. There’s a full team of FBI agents down there and they track the behavior of many of the detainees and show that nearly a hundred of them collectively have visited 38 states in the United States. Legal, lawful entry into the United States some for as long as 2 years to attend...colleges, some for as short as two days. Many to visit traditional American tourist sites but that many of them had been there.”
On observing the interrogations:
“The people conducting the interrogations freely admit the procedures that they used before 2004 were more aggressive than now. When the Supreme Court came down with its eight to one decision saying the constitution applies, the treaties apply. The law applies and the federal court has jurisdiction. They stopped using the methods that the 5 FBI agents had complained about. So the interrogations that we saw, John, were about as mild as you and I conversing now...it's one detainee, it's three interrogators, one of whom is a translator. The whole thing is taped. Four people are watching the entire interrogation as it goes on. In my case they allowed us to watch it through close circuit so we weren't in the same room and we couldn't hear the words being used. We watched the guy being interrogated who’s the number two person there. The government has ranked them, all four hundred, in the order of their influence they have over the others. This is the number two person and they interrogate him about every two weeks just to see what information he wants to share with them or what lies he wants to give them which allows them to compare with what he said with what others are saying...."
Watch a video excerpt of the Judge's conversation with John Gibson here...
