NYT: CIA Order on Detainees Shows Its Role (in interrogations) Was Curbed

[DeepModem Mom]

INTERROGATIONS
C.I.A. Order on Detainees Shows Its Role Was Curbed
By DOUGLAS JEHL

Published: December 14, 2004


WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 - Concerns about harsh techniques used by Special Operations forces prompted the Central Intelligence Agency last year to bar its officers in Iraq from taking part in military interrogations where prisoners were subjected to duress, intelligence officials said.

A classified directive issued by the agency's headquarters on Aug. 8, 2003, to all its personnel in Iraq advised that "if the military employed any type of techniques beyond questions and answers, we should not participate and should not be present," according to an account provided by a senior intelligence official.

In telling C.I.A. personnel to keep away from interrogations where military personnel were using harsh techniques, the directive was more restrictive than was previously known. Officials first disclosed the agency's order last September, saying that it had barred C.I.A. officers from interviewing the military's prisoners unless military officials were present.

The new disclosure is the latest sign of longstanding unease in intelligence circles about the military's interrogation techniques in Iraq. Complaints by the Defense Intelligence Agency about the rough treatment of prisoners by the same Special Operations units were made public last week in a document disclosed by the American Civil Liberties Union....


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/14/politics/14intel.html

[TahitiNut]

1. This puts Porter Goss' purges in perspective.

Can't have a CIA that's queasy about little things like torture and crimes against humanity.
:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[DeepModem Mom]

2. And is the reason the directive was leaked?

[maddezmom]

3. it's a circular firing squad...but the circle seems to end at * and rummy