Published: April 24, 2011
The Government’s Guide to Assessing Prisoners
These three documents were designed to guide military intelligence interrogators and analysts at Guantánamo as they attempted to assess what detainees had done in the past and what risk they might pose in the future. The “Assessment of Afghanistan Travels” — which lists the online encyclopedia Wikipedia as one source — offers background on Afghanistan and Islam and examples of how some detainees may have been trained to resist interrogation. The two “Threat Matrix” documents were aids to gauging whether a prisoner, on release, might pose a a high, medium or low risk to American interests.
Published: April 24, 2011
The Government’s Guide to Assessing Prisoners
These three documents were designed to guide military intelligence interrogators and analysts at Guantánamo as they attempted to assess what detainees had done in the past and what risk they might pose in the future. The “Assessment of Afghanistan Travels” — which lists the online encyclopedia Wikipedia as one source — offers background on Afghanistan and Islam and examples of how some detainees may have been trained to resist interrogation. The two “Threat Matrix” documents were aids to gauging whether a prisoner, on release, might pose a a high, medium or low risk to American interests.
