Melville House Books

A book being written by a former Army seargeant who was an Arabic translator at the United States prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba describes how “Female interrogators tried to break male Muslim detainees. . . by sexually touching them, by wearing miniskirts and thong underwear, and, in one case, by smearing a Saudi man’s face with red ink, which he was led to believe was menstrual blood.” According to an Associated Press wire story, the manuscript of Erik R. Saar “is classified as secret pending a Pentagon review” of the book project. The revelations of its contents came about when the AP obtained an eight-page segment, but would not say how it was obtained.

Dennis Johnson is the founder of MobyLives, and the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House.