Posted on 02/26/2010 7:00:21 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Last summer, the Obama administration announced that, as a replacement for the Bush administration's secret CIA terrorist detention and interrogation program, it would create a SWAT-style team of interrogation experts to travel the world squeezing terrorist suspects for vital information.
Administration officials say that the interrogation unit, known as the HIG (for High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group) is now operational.
But for reasons that are unclear, the administration has not deployed HIG personnel to question Afghan Taliban military commander Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, arguably the most important terrorist suspect captured since the detention of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in spring of 2003.
Mullah Baradar was captured by Pakistani security forces in Karachi earlier this month following a tip-off from U.S. intelligence about a planned meeting involving some of his cohorts; as we reported, U.S. officials have acknowledged that Baradar's arrest was a lucky break, since the intelligence tip-off did not indicate he would be present at the meeting.
As we also reported, some sources say that U.S. intelligence personnel in Pakistan, who are believed to include both CIA and military counterterrorism experts, were not given access to Baradar until more than a week after his capture.
Obama administration officials now say that Baradar is talking a little, that U.S. personnel in Pakistan do have access to him, and that any intelligence that has been squeezed out of him has been shared with American representatives.
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**the administration has not deployed HIG personnel to question Afghan Taliban military commander Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar,**
I hope this does NOT Surprise ANYONE!!
Someone wake me up when the adults are back in charge.
They might find Obama’s Muslim connections.
Someone wake me up when the adults are back in charge.
No kidding. I try to rationalize the thinking and am still confused but have a headache at the end...
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