Remembering the song from the Jazz Singer. We’re coming to America… Today!

Kind of makes you think of those immigrants coming to the golden shores of America… the land of ideals.

I have a feeling that regaining that status among the world’s poor and disaffected will take a very very long time.

FBI documents reveal details of abuse at Guantanamo

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) — A number of newly released FBI files give detailed accounts of abuses at the U.S. detention facilities for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, CNN reported Wednesday.

The documents showed that at least 26 FBI employees witnessed aggressive mistreatment of prisoners and harsh interrogation techniques by other government agencies or outside contractors at the prison, according to the report.

“On several occasions witnesses saw detainees in interrogation rooms chained hand and foot in fetal position to floor with no chair/food/water; most urinated or defecated on selves and were left there 18, 24 hours or more,” according to one FBI account.

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One FBI witness saw a detainee “shaking with cold,” while another said a detainee in a sweltering unventilated room was “almost unconscious on a floor with a pile of hair next to him (he had apparently been pulling it out through the night).”

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Another witness saw a detainee “with a full beard whose head was wrapped in duct tape.”

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One file said that an interrogator squatted over the Quran and that a German shepherd dog was ordered to “growl, bark and show his teeth to the prisoner.”

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The documents also said the detainees told FBI agents that they had been beaten and one detainee complained that a female guard had rubbed up against him, fondled him and wiped menstrual blood on his head.

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Agents reported seeing detainees with facial injuries, such as black eyes and cuts, and broken fingers.

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The temperature of detention rooms was also kept either extremely hot or cold and loud music was played to deprive detainees of sleep.

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A few agents said they had seen prisoners wrapped with Israeli flags.

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The FBI said none of its agents were involved in the mistreatment, which it said was carried out by civilian security contractors or military personnel.

You have to ask yourself – does this represent me?