mind altering drugs just altering us intelligence to dig deeper into this i'm joined now by jason leopold he's the lead investigative reporter for truthout dot org welcome to you said so i know you are one of those that filed this freedom of information act request to the government tell us more about these chemical restraints as they're called. we don't know much about them i just want to point out that my colleague jeffrey kaye originally filed this freedom of information act request two years ago the report makes clear that chemical restraints were used on uncooperative detainees at that word uncooperative is in the report we don't know exactly what that means we don't know what those chemical restraints are but one thing that's very important to point out here is that these drugs these psychoactive. anti-psychotic medications that were given to these detainees and those detainees were interrogated while they were on those medications the government report the pentagon watchdog report says that it could produce unreliable information so the detainees are on this medication who knows what th

jason leopold summed it up . in the case of one detainees that we identified in the report. you know he said that his interrogator essentially asked him. or he confessed to his interrogator that he was a member of al qaida and we also know that this detained he was injected with how do all we also know from the report that the inspector general determined that this detainees was diagnosed as borderline with borderline personality disorder schizophrenia and psychotic and after he made this confession while he was on these while he was on this anti-psychotic they kept locked up in guantanamo for three more years it was jason leopold lead investigative reporter for truthout dot org and an update now to this story in response to these recent allegations the pentagon sends out a new report claiming that no evidence exists of any officials act on tunnel bay intentionally using mind altering drugs to interrogate prisoners the lawyers for the men held at the present suggest that their report still shows that the government relied upon the faulty statements of doped detainees will keep you poste

but in their evidence into question investigative journalist jason leopold was one of those who requested the release of information and he says the u.s. was just looking to get confessions no matter whether they were true or false one thing that's very important to point out here is that these drugs these psychoactive. anti-psychotic medications that were given to these detainees and those detainees were interrogated while they were on those medications the government report the pentagon watchdog report says that it could produce unreliable information in the d.c. circuit. the system that's set up there now is that everything of detainees says in a hey vs in there hey vs corpus case is presumed to be true so the burden falls upon the detainees to prove that it's not true in the case of one detainees that we identified in the report he confessed to his interrogator that he was a member of al qaida and we also know that this detained he was injected with how dull and after he made this confession while he was on these while he was on this anti-psychotic they kept him locked up in guantanamo for three more years so you can