Damien M. Corsetti

Who is Damien M. Corsetti?

Damien M. Corsetti was a soldier in the United States Army. As part of the Army's investigation into prisoner abuse at Bagram, Corsetti was charged with dereliction of duty, maltreatment, assault and performing an indecent act with another person. PFC Corsetti was later found not guilty of all charges. At the time Corsetti was a Specialist in the 519th Military Intelligence Battalion, serving under Lieutenant Carolyn Wood.

On May 20, 2005 Tim Golden of the New York Times published a long article on the Bagram murders based on a 2,000 page classified report to which the Times had gotten access. This article contained many allegations about Corsetti's role.

According to the New York Times:

One of Corsetti's nickname in the unit was "Monster". He had a tattoo across his stomach of the Italian word for Monster.

Another of Corsetti's nicknames in the unit was "The King of Torture". Corsetti was large and imposing, and was called upon by other interrogators to frighten prisoners using the interrogation technique known as "Fear up, harsh".

According to one detainee Corsetti's abuse of prisoners included poking bound prisoners in the face with his naked penis and threatening them with sexual assault.