Bush's War Part1 (50 of 71)

Bush's War

One detainee in particular would get the treatment.
His prison ID number was 063.
The insiders called him "the 20th hijacker." His name was Mohammed al Qahtani.
He had to urinate on himself.
He was deprived of sleep for days on end.
He was deprived of food.
They brought in a dog to terrorize him.
He was forced to wear a woman's bra and had a thong placed on his head.
They put on a dog leash and made him do animal tricks.
He was called a homosexual, and a female interrogator straddled him.

We know now that they ended up using women interrogators to try to use sexual innuendo and touching and- to make a devout Muslim feel ashamed of himself.
And I remember speaking to a Pentagon official, who said, you know, "Yeah, we had to give- we gave them latitude." You know, "We wanted them to be creative." Rumsfeld had been increasingly unhappy about the lack of actionable intelligence from Gitmo.
They weren't getting any intelligence, and so it all added up to taking a lot of detainees, putting them on Guantanamo, and nothing was working right.
The feedback that I was getting was that the information initially wasn't as valuable as it could be and we just had to get better organized for that.
These are among the most dangerous, best trained, vicious killers on the face of the earth.
He's in it daily.
They're meeting on this every day.
He's directly involved in it.
He's very hands-on.
He's not one to not make it very clear to people that he is unhappy.
There was a new facility.