Hail to the Thief !
Posted on 08/24/2009 10:37:12 AM PDT by nickcarraway
US President Barack Obama has approved a new elite team to question key terror suspects, the White House has said.
The unit will be housed at the FBI headquarters in Washington and be overseen by the White House.
The announcement came hours before the publication of fuller details of the CIA's treatment of terrorism suspects.
Also on Monday US media said the justice department was to reopen about a dozen prisoner abuse cases that could lead to prosecution of CIA employees.
'Different elements'
The BBC's Daniel Sandford in Washington says there has been strong concern that interrogation has been carried out by different groups including the CIA, the military and the FBI.
Mr Obama wants to bring the elements together and have a properly regulated way of interrogating suspects, our correspondent says.
ANALYSIS BBC defence and security correspondent Rob Watson The decision of the justice department's ethics division to reopen nearly a dozen alleged prisoner abuse cases will now hamper President Obama's efforts to draw a line under what happened in the early years of the war on terrorism.
At the very least the recommendation is likely to lead to a new investigation and possibly even to the prosecution of CIA agents and others involved in the alleged abuses.
The fear at the White House is that any such move could reignite the bitter ideological divisions within the US over how best to keep America safe. The White House will also no doubt be concerned about the effect on morale at the CIA.
Decisions on coercion and the way interrogation is carried out will now be made centrally, he says.
Deputy White House press secretary Bill Burton confirmed the new interrogation team would bring
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Was this the one where they force suspected terrorists to work for ACORN or AmeriCorps?? Yeah, I’d much rather be in a secret CIA prison or on the beach at Gitmo too.
Interrogations run by Hussein`s WH !?
Why not just transfer all of Washington into the WH
They are forced to intern for Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid.
Once it disappears into the WH there is no accountablity
and congress losses oversight.
So easy for hussein to create a complete authortarian
dictatorship
Think about it. The new “unit” is going to be located in downtown Washington, D.C., eight blocks from the White House. No security issues there, no siree. These people are gravely, criminally, dangerously incompetent.
Citizens’ interrogation most likely, not terrorists. The terrorists are friends, but US citizens are troublemakers. Life has tumbled upside down.
Perhaps, under the new guidelines, they can give them a cigar some tea and a comfy chair. “I say old chap do you mind if we talk about that rather nasty piece of business you were involved in?”
Incompetence is the new competence. The king has no clothes.
no obama supports destruction of this country....
God forbid we should be frightening the terrorists, eh?
Soros has told Oshama he must do this to get the left wing back on his side.
So the FBI will get intel from Al Queda and because of the WALL, they can’t share it with the CIA.
Yes there is oversight even though congress refuses to do it. The little sticking point for him in all this happens to be the United States Constitution, you know, that document Obama considers a "fatally flawed document." It happens to be the fly in the ointment which he can't avoid regardless of congressional inaction and will come back to bite him as soon as somebody with the cajons decides to take it to court.
If I were Obama, G_d forbid, I'd be careful about all this because with a new administration it just might be decided to launch a criminal investigation of his administration just as he is doing to the Bush administration. What's good for the goose is good for the gander......... so to speak.
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