Obama’s Interrogations, Obama’s War
August 24, 2009 / 10:53 am • By Dr. Melissa ClouthierWow, is there nothing that President Obama can’t do? With the move to control terrorist interrogations, President Obama no longer has plausible deniability. From the Washington Post:
Obama signed off late last week on the unit, named the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group, or HIG. Made up of experts from several intelligence and law enforcement agencies, the interrogation unit will be housed at the FBI but will be overseen by the National Security Council — shifting the center of gravity away from the CIA and giving the White House direct oversight.
Seeking to signal a clean break from the Bush administration, Obama moved to overhaul interrogation and detention guidelines soon after taking office, including the creation of a task force on interrogation and transfer policies. The task force, whose findings will be made public Monday, recommended the new interrogation unit, along with other changes regarding the way prisoners are transferred overseas.
Who will he blame when the inevitable mistakes happen? Oh wait, that’s what cover-ups are for. Silly me.
3 Responses to “Obama’s Interrogations, Obama’s War”
August 24 2009 / 11:08 pm
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The mistakes left office in January. Their mistakes were plentiful far beyond the inevitable. Save your snark for the people who actually did the torturing, sweetheart.
August 26 2009 / 9:34 am
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Give it a rest fuster – you can take your lies elsewhere. The INTERROGATIONS done to the terrorists was in NO WAY, NO HOW, is any way related to Torture.
If you think it is, then you really, really need to go study REAL History (not the made up Liberal version of it) a lot.
August 27 2009 / 1:31 pm
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Dave, interrogations in Iraq conducted by the CIA and people contracted to assist them really, really, really killed a couple of people, at least if you’re willing to believe the Department of Defense.
Of course, if you kill somebody during the course of interrogating them, it may not have been due to torture….. might just be excessive kindness, not the broken neck.
http://action.aclu.org/torturefoia/released/102405/3235.pdf