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—Second Edition—
Joshua Casteel
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I have been on the job at the interrogation center now for about five days, and I really love my work. I am not at liberty to discuss many details, but what I can say is that there are plenty of detainees here who are simply no joke. Some of the most unsavory of individuals committing indiscriminate acts (even against fellow Muslims) have passed through these walls. We released many detainees over the past three months (approx. three to four thousand), and with the ones remaining I play an integral role in getting to the bottom of incredibly heinous acts. And for those who are being held unjustly, I play an active role in their release, and can quite often form congenial relations with them (although actual friendships are obviously a little past the line of what is proper, or safe for the detainee).
Much has changed since the controversy, some for good and some for ill. Apart from the much-needed changes regarding detainee abuse, of which my colleagues know next to nothing, the knee-jerk reaction to ensure the world knows we obey the law has made things slightly difficult. There is a lot of discouragement on the part of interrogators, especially when known terrorists or criminals are across the table from us, and we are nearly impotent as to the level of surveillance authorized, authority to segregate/isolate, etc. There are those on Capitol Hill who, on the one hand, desire “victory” in the “war on terror” and then, on the other hand, would have us just offer the terrorists tea and cigarettes to tell us where bin Laden and Zarqawi are. This of course is absurd, being that al-Qaida operatives are trained to resist interrogation and to expect torture. Our “prison” probably seems like a resort. I’m not sure what is being reported in the US currently about Abu Ghraib, but conditions are pretty cush for our detainees.
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