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The Prayer That Ended A Career - Former intel officer says method aided interrogation
Army Times | March 10, 2003 | Vince Crawley


Posted on 03/04/2003 6:42 AM PST by Stand Watch Listen



Former intel officer says method aided interrogation

By Vince Crawley, Times staff writer

Chief Warrant Officer 3 Bill Tierney's military career began in 1983 when, he says, God told him that his mission in life was to join the Army.
His career ended 16 years, 9 months and 27 days later because of a prayer.

The Defense Intelligence Agency said Tierney, an Arabic-speaking analyst and former U.N. arms inspector, overstepped his bounds when he prayed with an Iraqi Christian defector shortly before the 1998 Desert Fox air strikes against Iraq. At the time, Tierney was assigned to the U.S. Central Command.

Such actions "could have resulted in the loss of a valuable intelligence source," Vice Adm. Thomas Wilson, then head of DIA, wrote to a member of the U.S. Congress.

[MHGinTN]

Thank you for the clarification! Interesting that a prayer would jeapordize intel ...