No Proof Of Beatings At Gitmo

   The United States military said that after investigating claims of prisoner abuse at Guantanamo Bay, they have found no evidence of such abuse happening.

AP

Col. Richard Bassett, the chief investigator, did not recommend disciplinary action against the Navy guards named by Marine Sgt. Heather Cerveny, who had said that during a conversation in September they described beating detainees as common practice.

"The evidence did not support any of the allegations of mistreatment or harassment," the Miami-based Southern Command, which oversees Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in southeastern Cuba, said in a statement.

Investigators conducted 20 interviews with "suspects and witnesses," the Southern Command said. The statement did not say whether Bassett interviewed any detainees, including any of the alleged victims.

   The report doesn't say that they interviewed any alleged victims or detainees because the odds are that they did not. If they did do the interviews with victims, it was more than likely ' scrubbed ' from the report.

 

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