Paul Rester

Paul Rester is the director of the Joint Intelligence Groupat the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba -- the Chief Interrogator.cite news
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author=Eric Firkel
date=Sunday, February 17, 2008
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url=http://www.jtfgtmo.southcom.mil/wire/WirePDF/v7/issue13v7.pdf
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author=Sergeant Christina Douglas
date=Friday June 16 2006
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quote=After lunch, O'Reilly toured various camps and met with Navy RearAdm. Harry B. Harris, the commander of JTF-GTMO, Army Colonel Michael Bumgarner, the commander of the Joint Detention Group, Paul Rester, the director of the Joint Intelligence Group, and two interrogators.] cite news
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title=US Admiral Confirms Secret Camp at Gitmo
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author=Andrew O. Selsky
date=February 7, 2008
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quote=Paul Rester, the military's chief interrogator at Guantanamo, told AP he has been interviewing one of the Camp 7 detainees and that others may be interrogated, depending on intelligence needs.] cite news
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title=EXCLUSIVE: Guantanamo's Chief Interrogator Says 'We Don't Employ Torture'
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author=Terry Moran
date=June 26, 2006
accessdate=2008-02-16
quote=For myself, torture is the deliberate and sadistic of mental or physical pain on another human being. It's as simple as that. For the pure and simple satisfaction of doing it. It serves no redeeming social value in eliciting concrete information. It serves no redeeming social value in -- in obtaining the knowledge we need to combat this particular enemy.] cite news
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Rester described the interrogation techniques the military used at Guantanamo to the "Associated Press".He said he was concerned that the CIA's use of "extended interrogation techniques" had given the public the wrong impression of the techniques the military used at Guantanamo.

Rester told Andrew Selsky of the "Associated Press" that the successes of the American military interrogators had come through "rapport-building" techniques -- not coercive or brutal techniques. He said Joint Task Force Guantanamo commander Mark Buzby had authorized him to describe one of the interrogators recent successes.

Rester acknowledged that Mohamed al-Kahtani, and one other captive, had been subjected to "rough treatment" in 2002.He didn't offer the name of the other captive who had been subjected to rough treatment.

"Time Magazine" reported that Mohamed al Kahtani's interrogation log had been leaked to them, and that it documented he had been subjected to almost two months of sleep deprivation, forced nudity, force-feedings, forced enemas, threats against his family, and sexual humiliation.

According to Selsky's article Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, a lawyer who volunteered to help Guantanamo captives "scoffed at Rester's contention that rough treatment at Guantanamo was restricted to just two men."

Following the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld Rester stated:

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