Seton Hall Law Students Discover U.S. Military Routinely Videotaping Gitmo Interrogations

New evidence reveals that the US government routinely videotaped the 24,000 interrogations conducted in Guantanamo Bay between 2002 and 2005. The report released Thursday by professors and students from the New Jersey-based Seton Hall University School of Law cites internal reports from 2005 by Army Surgeon General Kevin Kiley and Lieutenant General Randall Schmidt.

The two CIA tapes that were destroyed might just have been a fraction of the thousands of recorded interrogations, according to the legal researchers who say cameras are positioned in every interrogation room. But Guantanamo spokesman Rick Haupt denied the charges. He told Agence France Press Friday that “Joint Task force Guantanamo is not required to videotape interrogations and did not routinely do so.” He added: “That said, we always monitor interrogations, in accordance with Department of Defense Directives for the purpose of interrogation oversight and to ensure safe and humane treatment of detainees.”

The Seton Hall University report is titled Captured on Tape: Interrogation and Videotaping of Detainees in Guantanamo. It was compiled by 27 student and graduate research fellows at the Seton Hall Law Center for Policy and Research.
Joining me now are two of the reports co-authors. Joshua Denbeaux is a senior research fellow at the Center and Shana Edwards is a final year law student and a fellow at the Center.

Joshua Denbeaux, Senior Research Fellow at the Seton Hall Law Center for Policy and Research.

Shana Edwards, final-year law student and a fellow at the Seton Hall Law Center for Policy and Research.

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