Never trust an interrogator

Not quite sure what to make of this report on crafty interrogation techniques from the Detroit Free Press:

U.S. interrogators at the Guantanamo prison camp in Cuba have told two Kuwaiti prisoners not to trust their lawyers because they are Jewish and would "betray Muslims," one of their lawyers said in an affidavit filed in federal court.


The allegations, denied by the U.S. government, also include an account of one interrogator telling a prisoner that the law firm handling his case is Jewish and represents Israel...

Aha, those eeeevil Yanks:

...said lawyer Tom Wilner, who is Jewish.

Well, they made the Israel bit up at least, surely:

Wilner noted that his Washington firm, Shearman & Sterling, has a "diverse membership" and represented Israel in a trade dispute 15 years ago.

Regular readers here will know my thoughts on the human rights hell-hole that is Guantanamo, but I'm tempted in this case to say that interrogators giving inmates facts in the full knowledge that ingrained anti-semitism will do the rest of the work is perfectly valid in what is, after all, a state of war (real or imagined, discarded Geneva Conventions notwithstanding).


Anyway, what are they going to do them for? Telling the truth? And where's Jon Ronson when you need him?