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Third Set of Entries Found From Interrogator Joe Ryan's Diary

Captain Sensible has found a new set of diary entries for Abu Ghraib interrogator Joe Ryan. They cover March 7th - 18th. Some points of interest:

  • On March 7th, CACI were still using untrained and unqualified interrogators at Abu Ghraib (according to Ryan)

"In reviewing our manning document with LTC Faust this evening, I noticed that we have three people doing interrogations that are not school trained or certified. This is a rather large problem. LTC Faust stated that Tom Howard, one of our CACI higher ups working at the C2, told him that we could use analysts that showed promise and turn them into junior interrogators. After recovering from my convulsions, I explained that I would like my next stop to be home, not Ft. Leavenworth."

  • Ryan claims that the International Red Cross were banned from Abu Ghraib on March 18th for distributing 'anti-American propaganda'
  • Ryan reveals a lot about tensions with "another government agency" (code for CIA I think), and that the OGA had "already burned bridges here by coming in and removing a couple detainees without authorization".
  • Ryan reveals there were video cameras in the interrogation booths (something that's been speculated about but not proven).

To summarize, there are now three sets of Joe Ryan diary entries:

  • The April 11-26 entries, recovered from the Google cache: This article broke the news of them: <a href=". A copy of the cached page is here.

Billmon's excellent take on them is here.

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