Elite terrorist interrogation team withers under Trump
Source: Politico
Launched by President Barack Obama after CIA torture scandals, the High Value Detainee Interrogation Group is "floundering," U.S. officials say.
By ALI WATKINS 12/05/2017 05:04 AM EST
In mid-September, a Syrian rebel brigade turned over to U.S. troops in Iraq a captured Islamic State fighter with an unusual background: He was an American.
The man posed a unique challenge for US officials. As a U.S. citizen with constitutional protections, any interrogation techniques judged to run afoul of U.S. law could make him impossible to prosecute in federal court.
To many U.S. officials, it seemed like a perfect job for the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG) an interagency team formed by the Obama administration after a wrenching national debate over Bush-era torture practices and charged with developing humane interrogation methods based on academic research.
But the Trump administration never deployed the elite team to question the American captured in Syria, according to two sources with knowledge of the groups deployments. The groups exclusion rattled those who work for it, who fear its days could be numbered under a president who has openly endorsed the torture of terror suspects. In the last week alone, two members of the groups critical research arm announced their departure, and warned colleagues the organization was in danger.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/05/elite-terrorist-interrogation-trump-279930
alarimer
(16,245 posts)Just another cover for torture.
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)This is a group Obama installed. They do not torture.
alarimer
(16,245 posts)Democrats have been guilty of heinous acts as president and Obama is no different. There was Johnsons escalation of Viet Nam and Obamas illegal drone killings for starters. And then there are the Coast Guards illegal detentions, begun under Obama. So yeah elite terrorist interrogation is just a bullshit term for something that likely includes activities very close to torture.
https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-11-24/us-coast-guard-operating-floating-prisons-pacific-ocean-outside-us-legal
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)dalton99a
(81,515 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,148 posts)Zero energy president.
IronLionZion
(45,451 posts)but seriously, all sorts of assholes believe incorrectly that even a white person loses their US citizenship when they go to the Middle East for any reason.
Now, if this asshole is an Islamic State fighter, then why not just prosecute him for terrorism? Bring him back to America, put him on trial, lock his ass up or execute him if needed.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)"Being weak on terror"