FBI’s last formal Hussein interview completely redacted
Published: July 2, 2009
Updated 4 months ago
“High Value Detainee # 1″ – otherwise known as Saddam Hussein – participated in at least 20 formal interviews and at least 5 “casual conversations” with the FBI after his capture in December of 2003.
Transcriptions of the chats were finally released the last two weeks through Freedom of Information Act requests conducted separately by a New York Daily News reporter and the National Security Archive. The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler reports that they were “released with few deletions, though one, a last formal interview on May 1, 2004, was completely redacted.”
“Thomas S. Blanton, director of the archive, said he could conceive of no national security reason to keep Hussein’s conversations with the FBI secret,” Kessler writes. “Paul Bresson, a bureau spokesman, said he could not explain the reason for the redactions.”
More from the Post’s article:
The formal interviews covered Hussein’s rise to power, the Kuwait invasion, and Hussein’s crackdown on the Shiite uprising in extensive detail, while the subject of the weapons of mass destruction and al-Qaeda were raised in the casual conversations, after the formal interviews. Blanton said this suggests that the FBI received new orders from Washington to delve into topics of intense interest to Bush administration officials.
The FBI spokesman did not know why those subjects were raised in the later meetings. In an interview last year on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” George L. Piro, the agent who conducted the interviews, said he purposely put Hussein’s back against the wall “psychologically to tell him that his back was against the wall,” but he did not use coercive interrogation techniques, because “it’s against FBI policy.” The interviews released yesterday do not suggest any use of coercive techniques.
The 2 page almost entirely blank May 1, 2004 transcript can be viewed at this link.
Links to the other released transcripts can be accessed at this link.
The Daily News’s award-winning investigative reporter James Gordon Meek has done extensive reporting on the Hussein interviews. How The FBI Broke Saddam part 1 can be read at this link. A RAW STORY report on some of Meek’s articles can be read at this link.
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It’s like the history channel, wow. Hows that failed central American democracy doing today? Hows that $3000 Iranian bullet fee coming along? Heard from the Dalai lama lately? Poor Dalai lama. Poor Iranians, living under theocracy, poor Tibetans, they don’t get to live under theocracy, and Honduras? Eata fucking taco Honduras. If only they were all gay…
word! Special rights for special people. How many other soldiers committed suicide this week?
Should of been Bush swinging in those gallows rather than Saddam.
he should of been restored to power and written a very very large check after the WMD’s vanished into thin air for the first time in the history of physics. (similar to WTC1&2&7)
Satan -same as Natty, your posts are always attempts to minimize and avert attention from the story we’ve just read by whining about news from days or weeks ago -I see a pattern -but maybe I’m wrong, maybe you just can’t keep current
Breaking news minimization is a Rove tool that just dosent work any more -it just makes those who do it look like greasy old fat bald Frat boys stuck back in the eight year long “forty years of Republican Rule” -there just aren’t enough of you left to minimize the flood proving you were wrong all along.
Funny how the Government can completely ignore laws and a judges orders.
And Obama lets them get away with it.
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It doesn’t matter what is redacted. Because that wasn’t the real Hussein. Its obvious if you compare pictures that the so called Hussein that was captured in Iraq isnt the Saddam Husssein that ruled Iraq. If you do some research you will find out that Hussein had body doubles to help protect him from assassination attempts.
It’s all redacted because this Hussein body double was complaining about his treatment after all he’d agreed to do for the CIA, and now, once again, “Saddam” was being stabbed in the back, just like after he was tricked into invading Kuwait by the US ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspy.
“The formal interviews covered Hussein’s rise to power, the Kuwait invasion, and Hussein’s crackdown on the Shiite uprising in extensive detail, while the subject of the weapons of mass destruction and al-Qaeda were raised in the casual conversations, after the formal interviews. ”
Gee, could it be because they already knew those two ‘justifications’ for McFlightsuit’s Iraq Misadventure were utter bullshit? They just threw in a question or two for shits and giggles.
Fucking duh.
Saddam was more than a tyrant.. He was OUR tyrant, and since he was our tyrant, he was also a witness.
Of course they can’t allow him to speak. How would it look if the world knew we set him up in a cross drilling dispute, green lighted him and then knifed him in the back?
Saddam was an intelligent man who knew way too much about US policies and US actions. He was a ruthless and murderous dictator, but he was a partner to America, making deals with Donald Rumsfeld et al. Where did he get the gas to kill his own people? He got it from the USA. That’s right. The US provided him with deadly WMD to use against Iranians and his own people. Anyone who still believes the US are the good guys is seriously deluded. I agree that if Saddam got the gallows then so should Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Pearle, Feith, Rumsfeld, Rice, Rove and all the other murderous bastards from the Bush administration. These are the evil bastards of the USA.
jhoffax caught onto the same thing I was thinking. I would bet that the last interview contained a lot of information about how Cheney and Rumsfeld were deeply involved in providing Iraq with the very weapons of mass destruction that they were so sure were still there. It was redacted to protect Cheney, Rumsfeld, and the rest of the PNAC crew. Someone would do the world a big favor if they leaked the contents of the memo to the blogsphere (No way the MSM would go with it. See the recent episode involving the WaPo.) Then maybe the call for their prosecution would get somewhere.
Screw the e-mails to Obama, send a hand written letter. Barack never sees them because e-mails are just deleted.
marinessuck; A hand written letter won’t get through to him either. All his snail mail gets wharehoused for months before it can be tested for Anthrax. Plenty of time to edit it. F#ckers have figured out all the angles.
Yeah, it all had to be redacted because George H. W. Fucking Bush was mentioned too many times as being the cause of some kind shit or other, as was the United States and a few other of the prick countries.