No explanation was offered for the delay, although the processing of the detainees occurred after President George W. Bush announced on 6 September 2006 that the detainees were being held at Guantanamo Bay. One of the reasons for the disclosure, he said, was that “in order to begin the process of bringing them to justice, we must bring them to justice.” Mr. Nashiri was brought to trial in 2011 and the case was repeatedly suspended due to complaints from a higher court.
Several law enforcement agents on Monday described how, during their assignment to the Criminal Investigation Task Force, a prosecution support organization set up by the Department of Defense, they began the collection process on November 30, 2006, during their first meeting with former CIA detainees. … The agents used what Mr. Miller called a “conveyor belt” to photograph, fingerprint, and take DNA samples from each of the 14 prisoners, who were handcuffed to their wrists and ankles and followed by a process led by two guards.
None of the men protested, complained, or mentioned the abuse, said Army Warrant Officer Leon Mansapit. She was a soldier in the military police at the time and took fingerprints from some of the inmates. “It was very routine,” she said, aside from the late hour.
The investigator involved in the processing, George E. Boyles, who has served in law enforcement and the military since the late 1980s, said that that evening in Guantanamo Bay was the only time in his career that he took what he believed to be in fact, it was a backup sample. suspects in custody for the fourth year.
Navy Captain Brian L. Meiser, military attorney for Mr. Nashiri, accused prosecutors of making “a bogus argument that this was a routine booking process three months after their arrival here and four years after their arrival in the United States. in custody. “According to Mr. Nashiri’s lawyers, such procedures are carried out at the time of arrest to confirm identity or to verify arrest warrants.
“I really don’t know where they were before I saw them at Guantanamo Bay,” said Sheldon J. Beddoe, an agent of the Naval Criminal Investigation Service who was based there in 2006 and oversaw the collection of evidence at “where I was not. are familiar with prefabricated houses.
The question of who controlled the detainees at Guantanamo Bay during this period has been the subject of controversy for many years. In 2014, a study by the Senate Intelligence Committee not only showed that there were two CIA black sites at the navy base, but also described Camp 7, the prison where Mr. Nashiri, Mr. Mohammed and other important prisoners were being held, as indicated in the CIA control in the first months of their stay at Guantanamo.
