Paul Rester
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Paul Rester is the director of the Joint Intelligence Group
at the United States
' Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba
-- the Chief Interrogator.
Rester described the interrogation techniques the military used at Guantanamo to the Associated Press
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He said he was concerned that the CIA's use of "extended interrogation techniques" had given the public the wrong impression of the techniques the military used at Guantanamo.
Rester told Andrew Selsky of the Associated Press that the successes of the American military interrogators had come through "rapport-building" techniques—not coercive or brutal techniques.
He said Joint Task Force Guantanamo
commander Mark Buzby had authorized him to describe one of the interrogators recent successes.
Rester acknowledged that Mohammed al Qahtani, and one other captive, had been subjected to rougher treatment in 2002.
He didn't offer the name of the other captive who had been subjected to rougher treatment.
Time Magazine reported that Mohammed al Qahtani's interrogation log had been leaked to them, and that it documented he had been subjected to almost two months of sleep deprivation, forced nudity, force-feedings, forced enemas, threats against his family, and sexual humiliation.
According to Selsky's article Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, a lawyer who volunteered to help Guantanamo captives "scoffed at Rester's contention that rough treatment at Guantanamo was restricted to just two men."
Following the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
Rester stated:
at the United States
United States
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' Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba
Cuba
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-- the Chief Interrogator.
Rester described the interrogation techniques the military used at Guantanamo to the Associated Press
Associated Press
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He said he was concerned that the CIA's use of "extended interrogation techniques" had given the public the wrong impression of the techniques the military used at Guantanamo.
Rester told Andrew Selsky of the Associated Press that the successes of the American military interrogators had come through "rapport-building" techniques—not coercive or brutal techniques.
He said Joint Task Force Guantanamo
Joint Task Force Guantanamo
Joint Task Force Guantanamo is a U.S. military joint task force based at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba on the southeastern end of the island. JTF-GTMO falls under US Southern Command...
commander Mark Buzby had authorized him to describe one of the interrogators recent successes.
Rester acknowledged that Mohammed al Qahtani, and one other captive, had been subjected to rougher treatment in 2002.
He didn't offer the name of the other captive who had been subjected to rougher treatment.
Time Magazine reported that Mohammed al Qahtani's interrogation log had been leaked to them, and that it documented he had been subjected to almost two months of sleep deprivation, forced nudity, force-feedings, forced enemas, threats against his family, and sexual humiliation.
According to Selsky's article Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, a lawyer who volunteered to help Guantanamo captives "scoffed at Rester's contention that rough treatment at Guantanamo was restricted to just two men."
Following the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 548 U.S. 557 , is a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that military commissions set up by the Bush administration to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay lack "the power to proceed because its structures and procedures violate both the Uniform Code of Military...
Rester stated: