Posted on 08/24/2009 6:58:49 AM PDT by markomalley
President Obama has approved the creation of an elite team of interrogators to question key terrorism suspects, part of a broader effort to revamp U.S. policy on detention and interrogation, senior administration officials said Sunday.
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.
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Holder Jr. is also considering whether to appoint a criminal prosecutor to investigate past interrogation abuses.
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In addition to the new interrogation unit, the Obama task force recommended that the State Department play a more active role in transferring detainees between countries. When the United States is moving a prisoner to another country, it "may rely on assurances" from the foreign government that the detainee will not be tortured. But the State Department will now be involved in evaluating whether such assurances are sincere, the officials said, and the United States will also seek new ways of monitoring treatment of prisoners in foreign custody. Other recommendations involve prisoner transfers that are classified, the summary said.
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Interrogators will not necessarily read detainees their rights before questioning, instead making that decision on a case-by-case basis, officials said.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
OK so the WH defines who is a potential threat and then they will handle questioning, etc. (everything else). Where have I seen that before?
WH question to terrorists:”So, are you free for the general elections of 2010 and 2012?”
Do we need agencies and departments? Do we need Congress or the Supreme Court? C’mon — we’ve got the Executive Branch, and we have a whole bunch of newly appointed czars, that ought to be enough, right? We can just have those folks run everything for us.
At what point is the tipping point of “high crimes and misdemeanors” reached?
High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group. Shouldn’t that be HDIG? Are these going to be more unelected and unaccountable government bureaucrats posing as interrogation czars?
Listen everyone,
all we have to do is offer these freedom fighters some milk and cookies and they will open up and tell everything. It seems to me a lot of you are mean spirited and are all wrong because we don’t know if any of these freedom fighter had a tough upbringing which would account for their bad choices.
'Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country,' he [Ayers] said."
August 2001, Chicago Magazine (article: No Regrets)
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/August-2001/No-Regrets/
"So, would Mr. Ayers do it all again, he is asked? 'I don’t want to discount the possibility',he said."
New York Times, September 11, 2001:
"No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
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"This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English..."
YouTube Video:
The O'Reilly Factor confronts Bill Ayers:
October 24, 2008:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP3uvK9gTIY
“elite team of interrogators”
A bunch of guys who say “give us an answer and we’ll give you cookies and milk!”
I suppose this means we get an “interrogation czar”.
Eric Holder, Bill Clinton, Wright's 'Black Liberation' "church", and the pardons of 16 members of the Puerto Rican Marxist terrorist group FALN:(Wright's Marxist BLT 'church' (Obama's 'church' for 20+ years) advocated for FALN terrorists)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2165024/posts
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"Fraunces Tavern is a restaurant and museum in lower Manhattan, New York City. It was built on the site of a former building which played a significant role in pre-Revolutionary activities, and in which, on 4 December 1783, General George Washington bade farewell to his officers at the end of the Revolution, before returning to his home, Mount Vernon."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraunces_Tavern
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"During the 1970s and 1980s, FALN members set off at least 138 bombs in five major U.S. Cities. Six Americans were killed in those attacks. One of those bombings, in January 1975, was at the historic Fraunces Tavern in lower Manhattan while patrons were at lunch. The explosion killed four and injured more than 50."
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/05/bill_hillary_and_the_faln.html
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"Between 1974 and 1985 the FALN (Puerto Rican Armed Forces of National Liberation) organized 120 terrorist bombings in the United States. Many Americans were killed in those bombings, and many more were crippled. In 1983, another Puerto Rican terrorist group known as the Macheteros, attacked and robbed a Wells Fargo armored car in Connecticut. The Macheteros intended to use the money to finance a terrorist campaign against the United States. Working under the cover of Puerto Rican nationalism and claiming to act on behalf of the 'oppressed people of Puerto Rico,' the FALN and the Macheteros are nothing but Communist revolutionaries. Both groups were organized by Fidel Castro's secret police. The ultimate goal of the FALN and the Macheteros is the creation of an independent Marxist-Leninist dictatorship on the island of Puerto Rico."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=19760
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Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright and Dr. William Ayers
are greeted by Rebekah Levin with the Committee
for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine.
(Chuck Berman/Chicago Tribune / May 17, 2009)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-ayers_wrightmay18,0,6689521.story
And if Bush were in office headlines would scream...
“Bush forms unaccountable torture team led directly from WH”
He is getting this set up so any of his high value associates can walk.
The system already had Czars, CIA, FBI and then they created a Czar who drove homeland security.
So answer me this: Why does he need to reinvent the wheel? Why does he have to have hands on?
This guy is turning absolutely totalitarian. Thats whats in the pipe and coming at us fast!
What is amazing about this is the 0 is following the basic fascist play book. Concentrate all power in a few hands under the “Great leader’s” direct control. And our supposed “people’s watchdogs” in the “News Media” maintain a disgraceful complicit silence
So we now have an “Interrogation CZAR”...
I really don’t think this is for the GITMO detainees.
God Help us...
Now, watch for a "White House elite team of investigators" who will determine WHICH CITIZEN is a "terrorism suspect"...based upon the criteria of WHICH CITIZEN criticizes the Obama administration, the criteria of WHICH CITIZEN owns a gun, based on the criteria of WHICH CITIZEN refuses to allow Obama's thugs to enter his home without a warrant....Rush, you and the FOX folks will be at the top of the list of "detainees" with Jim Robinson not far behind!
This really makes me want to yak.
Vee haf vay’s uf makink you talk! SS Commandant Klink
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