Standard Operating Procedure Page #6

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quite a while.

I think he was there

about an hour and a half.

All of a sudden, the OGA guy

opened the door and said,

"Can you help me here?

"Tie him a little higher 'cause

he don't want to cooperate now.

"He's, I guess..."

You know,

he was just sagging.

There were some

CIA guys there.

I think they were CIA.

Well, yeah, they were.

But at the time, we didn't

know what agency they were with.

They asked us to handcuff him to the

window, so he has to hold himself up

'cause he was playing possum. Now

I'm just holding him by the jumpsuit.

I'm not holding him under

the arms or anything.

And his jumpsuit

is riding up his crotch

and I commented

and said, you know,

"Damn, this guy's pretty

good at playing possum."

'Cause I know I'd be

howling like a, you know,

whatever with this riding up

my crotch like his jumpsuit was.

Everybody just kind of laughed and

nobody really thought anything of it.

And I remember how, like,

far back his arms were going

and it was just

a really awkward position.

Again, you know, I was like,

"You know, this guy's pretty damn good

"'cause, you know, his arms

are almost about to break.

"I'm surprised they haven't broken.

I'm waiting for the pop."

And then all of a sudden,

just like, I guess,

blood started pouring out

of his nose and mouth.

And so we realized something

was, you know, was wrong.

That's when I went

and raised the hood.

And that's the first time

I saw his face.

I was surprised 'cause his

face was totally messed up.

He got huge black eyes

with bruises everywhere.

And I was like,

"Whoa, what happened to this guy?"

And then one of

his eye was open.

So I kind of, like, did the thing

like Pierce so he could move his eyes.

And nothing.

He was just looking down like this.

And I was, "Whoa, this guy's...

This guy is not even alive."

This whole time we were

messing with this guy,

you know, carrying him

and lifting him

and this entire time

the guy was dead.

I even got some blood on my

uniform 'cause he was dripping.

It kind of felt bad,

you know, 'cause I'm like,

I know I'm not part

of this, but, you know...

But it kind of make you feel like you

are 'cause you're there with the guy.

Colonel Jordan, he was

in charge of the MIs,

he came in, the medics came in,

Captain Reese came in

Captain Brinson,

the first sergeant,

Sergeant Snider,

everybody showed up.

You had the entire chain

of command right there,

trying to figure out

what was going on.

We checked him and, you know,

sure enough he had died.

(SIGHING)

And we kind of...

I don't know, I walked out of the room,

just kind of like, you know...

(HUMS) You know,

like nothing happened.

And then I asked

one of the CIA agents

you know, I was like,

"Well, what do you guys normally do

"in a situation

like this?"

They were kind of,

not panicky

but, you know, they were

on their phones calling

whoever, to see how to, you know,

see what to do or what not.

JEFFREY FROST:

Well, what do we do with him?

We can't take him out in a body

bag 'cause that may start a riot.

So we had to keep him

there overnight.

And so we got

a body bag.

We got a bunch of ice.

Iced him down.

Left him in the room

where he was at.

And then we shut

and locked the door.

I remember saying

to the NCO,

"You need to take the

spare key and hold on to it

"or someone will probably go in

there and, you know, mess with him."

We should have

just taken both keys

and held on to them instead

of leaving one there.

But I guess he, you know,

had to leave one there

in case they wanted to come take

the body that night or something.

FROST:
It was pretty much supposed

to be, you know, hush-hush.

Didn't want the word

to spread around.

HARMAN:

"It was a crazy day yesterday.

The guy they brought in died.

"He was beat pretty bad.

I'm not sure what happened.

"It was on the shift

before us.

"They stuck him in a room next

to where I was working last night

"and put him in a body bag

on ice. How f***ing gross.

"He's already been

defrosting for 24 hours."

Captain Brinson had a meeting in

the main office with all of us.

And he said that there was a

prisoner who had died in the shower

and he died

of a heart attack.

HARMAN:
Sergeant Frederick got the key,

and we just checked him out.

He started to melt,

and it started to smell.

He was there for at least 24

hours prior to us getting there.

So he was there for

a pretty long time.

His knees were bruised,

his thighs were bruised by his genitals.

He had restraint marks

on his wrists.

It was kind of obvious,

after you just kept looking

that there was no way

he died of a heart attack.

MORRIS:
You've gotten

into trouble because of the thumb.

HARMAN:
I can understand.

It does look really bad.

But whenever I would get into a photo,

I never know what to do with my hands.

Any kind of photo,

I probably have a thumbs-up,

'cause it's just something

that automatically happens.

Like when you get into a photo,

you wanna smile.

It's just, I guess,

something I did.

He was a ghost detainee,

so he wasn't supposed to be there.

They didn't want him to be in

there when the Red Cross came

so we had to

do something.

So someone came up with the idea

to take him out of the body bag,

dress him in the orange jumpsuit,

put his dead body on a gurney,

stick a IV in his dead arm and

take him out of the facility.

DAVIS:
From that point on, we never

heard anything of it. It was just...

The guy died, they put him in a body bag,

put him on a gurney, he was gone.

Go about your business, keep working.

Disappeared. He dissolved into thin air.

(DAVIS MAKES SWISHING SOUND)

They tried to charge me with

destruction of government property

which I don't understand

and then maltreatment of

taking the photos of a dead guy.

But he's dead. I don't know

how that's maltreatment.

And then altering evidence

for removing the bandage from

his eye to take a photo of it

and then I placed it back.

When he died, they cleaned him all

up and then stuck the bandages on.

So it's not really altering evidence.

They had already done that for me.

In order to make

the other charges stick,

they were gonna have

to bring in the photos

which they didn't want to bring

up the dead guy at all, the OGA,

'cause obviously they covered up a murder

and that would just make them look bad.

So they dropped all the charges

pertaining to the OGA in the shower.

Camp Ganci had a huge riot.

It was a female MP.

She got smashed in the face with, like,

a cinder block or something like that.

They were gonna break out

of the tent encampments,

get the MPs,

and hold them hostage.

We brought them down the hallway,

put them on the floor.

That's where I come in.

I can't go

to sleep at night

worrying about the

detainees trying to kill me

when I got people outside

the walls trying to kill me.

This has got to stop.

These guys are gonna have to...

They got to know.

So I lost it.

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