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102 national lawyers guild reviewWhat the Administration claims to be lawful interrogation, most peoplewould characterize as torture. For example, an unnamed FBI agent observedactivities at Guantanamo Bay and reported:On a couple of occassions [sic], I entered interview rooms to find a detaineechained hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor, with no chair, food, orwater. Most times they had urinated or defacated [sic] in themselves, andhad been left there for 18-24 hours or more. On one occassion [sic], the airconditioning had been turned down so far and the temperature was so coldin the room, that the barefooted detainee was shaking with cold. When Iasked the MP’s what was going on, I was told that interrogators from the dayprior had ordered this treatment, and the detainee was not to be moved. Onanother occassion [sic], the A/C had been turned off, making the temperaturein the unventilated room probably well over 100 degrees. The detainee wasalmost unconcious [sic] on the floor, with a pile of hair next to him. Hehad apparently been literally pulling out his own hair throughout the night.On another occassion [sic], not only was the temperature unbearably hot,but extremely loud rap music was being played in the room, and had beensince the day before, with the detainee chained hand and foot in the fetalposition on the tile floor. 58In another case, an FBI agent reported that he asked a marine whathad caused a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, who was being interrogated,to grimace:The marine said Sgt. Lacey [the interrogator] had grabbed the detainee’sthumbs and bent them backwards and indicated that she also grabbed hisgenitals. The marine also implied that her treatment of that detainee wasless harsh than her treatment of others by indicating that he had seen hertreatment of other detainees result in detainees curling into a fetal positionon the floor and crying in pain. 59Moreover, not only has the United States directly tortured detainees, ithas also sent captured prisoners to other countries to interrogate them usingmedieval torture. Binyam Mohammed provides one of many such examples.Picked up in Pakistan, the United States sent this innocent man to Moroccowhere interlocutors broke his bones, sliced his penis with a scalpel, and gavehim mind-altering drugs. The U.S. even attempted to prosecute him for crimescarrying the death penalty long after it was obvious that there was no goodcase against him because he was, in fact, innocent. 60How high did the torture culture reach?We now know that President Bush personally approved his cabinetminister’s micromanagement of high-value detainee interrogations, whichincluded the use of torture and that the White House had formally approvedwaterboarding for al-Qaeda suspects. 61 Open admission of White House ap-