Boston.com / News / Local / Guantanamo-linked illness damages agent's faith in FBI: "But after Foley arrived in October 2003, she said, the experience quickly became far different from what she had imagined. Other FBI agents were fishing or diving during work hours, she said, and she was chastised for working too much, missing after-work parties, and not being part of the ''FBI Gitmo family.'" [--snip--]
Two FBI agents who served at Guantanamo with Foley filed statements for her workers' compensation case. The statements, obtained by the Globe, supported Foley's contention that her health rapidly deteriorated after the FBI assigned her to live in a row house infested with rats. Both agents wrote that they saw exterminators pull large rats from Foley's apartment and recounted that she often awoke with flea bites -- her legs and arms so swollen and painful that she could barely walk. One agent wrote that two agents who lived in Foley's apartment had left it filthy, with old food, dirty dishes, and dirty clothing. [--snip--]
By then, she had contracted a bacterial infection called leptospirosis, caused by exposure to rat urine, according to Dr. John Doweiko at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, a specialist on infectious diseases who has been treating Foley for 18 months. [--snip--]
Foley, who worked 12-hour shifts and often through the weekends, said she thinks the FBI does not want to acknowledge any responsibility for what happened to her. She said she is convinced the bureau has neglected her because while she was at Guantanamo, she complained about what she perceived as unprofessional conduct by some FBI co-workers on the base.
She thinks they after the fishing and the torture anyone has time to work?
