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The FBI has just released documents about "aggressive interview techniques, interrogations, or mistreatment of detainees" at the Guantanamo Bay detention facilty for terrorism suspects. The reports include summaries of abusive treatment FBI agents personally observed. If you aren't used to Freedom of Information Act files, you may find it difficult to get through the full PDF text, which is covered with redactions, but interested citizens should at least give it a try. (A "positive" response means that a detainee has reported specific allegations of abuse in response to a general survey.) Unfortunately, the recent film on the "Tipton Three," Road to Guantanamo, relies on re-enactments, but it also vividly makes the case that the U.S. is not following its own founding principles of justice, so it may well be worth a trip to the video store.