Posted on 05/18/2010 7:04:11 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration said on Tuesday it has started deploying special law enforcement and intelligence teams to interrogate suspected militants held in the United States and abroad.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced the formation of the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG) in August and gave the reins to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, replacing the Central Intelligence Agency that did have the lead role in intelligence interrogations.
"The HIG actually has deployed some teams already, both domestically and overseas, to conduct interrogations or to support interrogations that were underway," a senior Obama administration official said.
Officials have declined to say whether the teams were used in interrogations of the Afghan Taliban's No. 2 leader, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who was captured in the Pakistani port city of Karachi in late January in a joint operation by the CIA and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency.
Baradar is in Pakistan's custody.
The HIG is the product of executive orders issued by President Barack Obama shortly after he took office in January 2009. In the orders, Obama banned harsh interrogation methods put in place by his predecessor, President George W. Bush, and moved to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba along with secret CIA detention facilities.
Republicans in Congress have sharply criticized the Obama administration's decision to send suspected militants to criminal courts rather than military tribunals, arguing that important intelligence is lost in the process by cutting short interrogations.
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Miranda in one hand and ACLU business cards in the other?
What are they going to interrogate them with? marmalade and biscuits? With lashing of hot tea?
I heard that the secret head of HIG is Joe Biden, and he assured me that everyone on the team is just as smart as he is.
Probably apology teams. There’s not enough of Obama to go around.
The comfy chair is in the van...
Indeed!
LOl apology teams..
U.S. President Barack Obama holds up a basketball jersey given to him by the University of Connecticut women's basketball team during a ceremony where they were honored for their 2010 NCAA championship win, in the East Room of the White House in Washington May 17, 2010. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS SPORT BASKETBALL)
Or?
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to the press after signing the Freedom of Press Act in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, May 17, 2010. With Obama are members of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl's family including his wife Mariane (4th L) and their son Adam (3rd L). REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES - Tags: PROFILE)
LOL! Errrrrrrrrrr......let me think about that for a se....
Good one. You nailed it.
NOT THE COMFY CHAIR!!!!, THAT’S INHUMANE
Where is the orange shirted dude’s legs? Is that a dummy? Otherwise he’d be kicking the end guy in the, uh, goodies.
First task: fly to Oklahoma and interrogate tea party leaders.
vaudine
Wait. When George W. Bush did this, didnt the DNC call him a war criminal?
Don’t answer your doorbells, Freepers.
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