FBI warned military about interrogations

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- FBI agents warned U.S. military interrogators at Guantanamo Bay that some of their techniques were illegal, documents show.

Agents' concerns over tactics were contained in FBI memos released by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Financial Times said.

A May 2003 memo, said agents believed Defense Intelligence Agency interrogators were using tactics that were of "questionable effectiveness."

"Not only are these tactics at odds with legally permissible interviewing techniques used by U.S. law enforcement agencies in the U.S., but they are being employed by personnel ... who appear to have little, if any, experience eliciting information for judicial purposes," the memo said.

Agents complained that the U.S. military officer overseeing interrogations at Guantanamo "blatantly misled" the Pentagon into believing that the FBI had endorsed some of the more aggressive techniques.

"We now possess overwhelming evidence that political and military leaders endorsed interrogation methods that violate both domestic and international law," said Jameel Jaffer, an ACLU lawyer.