Posted on 02/01/2010 8:11:49 AM PST by Shellybenoit
Almost 6 Months ago President Obama announced a new set of rules for the interrogation of terrorists.
The President has approved new recommendations for the interrogation and transfer of suspected terrorists, which were created by a task force he set up shortly after taking office. The big headline is the creation of an interagency team of interrogators, which will be known as the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG). It will be placed administratively within the FBI, but the National Security Council (NSC) will provide what senior officials described as "strategic policy guidance." Although the officials were at some pains to state that the CIA will "be a key player in this effort," the reporting structure of the HIG seems designed to limit the role of the agency.
It's not clear who will head the new group or how many people it will employ those are decisions for the coming days.
That was August 24th. Today it is still not clear how the group will be comprised, after all it hasn't been formed yet. In a Washington Post Op Ed this weekend General Hayden who's resume includes being the Director of both the CIA and NSA Informed us that Obama never set up the HIG:
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Too busy taking vacation?
Too busy pushing Health Control and blaming Bush.
What kind of interogation torture is left to use on a guy that burned his pec*er???
“What did he know and when did he know it!”
No one knew ANYTHING!
Alfred E. Hussein Obama
I’m surprised no one has picked up on that “torture/terrorist irony” you just mentioned.
Yeah. Waterboarding, or “torturing” a terrorist who’s already tortured himself is like trying to find a gift for “the man who has everything.”
(and this particular ‘kid’ DID have everything)
The list, ping
I guess they could have withheld treatment and pain medications.............until it fell off. ;-)
Poor Obama. How is he ever going to blame this on Bush?
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