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U.S. Marshals Interrogate Reporters at Saddam Trial

HeadlineOct 21, 2005

A Fox News reporter has revealed that US Marshals are overseeing security at Saddam’s trial in Baghdad and have conducted interrogations of journalists, asking them a bizarre series of questions. Among the questions correspondent Dana Lewis says he was asked: “Am I friends with insurgents?” “Have I ever experimented with drugs?” “What is my religion?” “Are my teeth real?” At the end of the interview, Lewis says the Marshals asked him if he would be willing to take a polygraph. He was then led to a room for an iris scan and fingerprints, which will be used as a physical identity check entering the courtroom for the trial.

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