Abu Ghraib witnesses threatened

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A declassified U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) memo reveals that two DIA agents who witnessed abuses of inmates at Abu Ghraib were threatened by interrogators. The document was released under the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties union (ACLU), which summarizes it as follows:

A June 25, 2004 memo from Vice Admiral Lowell E. Jacoby,
Defense Intelligence Agency chief, entitled "alleged detainee abuse by TF 62-6,"
describing how DIA personnel who complained about abuses were threatened, had
their car keys confiscated and e-mails monitored, and were ordered "not to talk
to anyone in the U.S." or leave the base "even to get a haircut."

The June 25 memo also describes how the task force’s officers
punched a prisoner in the face "to the point he needed medical attention,"
failed to record the medical treatment, and confiscated DIA photos of the
injuries.