A newly leaked letter by a senior agency counterterrorism official has revealed that FBI agents witnessed US soldiers abusing detainees at Guantanamo Bay as early 2002 but the Pentagon did little to investigate the complaints. The Los Angeles Times report that in one incident, a soldier reportedly bent a prisoner’s thumbs back and “grabbed his genitals.” In another, an FBI agent saw a detainee “gagged with duct tape” for refusing to stop chanting the Quran. In a third episode, a prisoner allegedly was threatened with an aggressive dog and the man was placed for three months in “intense isolation,” causing him to experience “extreme psychological trauma.” One abused detainee was seen “curling into a fetal position on the floor and crying in pain.”