Disgusting!
"CIA tapes fray highlights interrogation flaws; Methods put intelligence at risk, officials say" by Josh Meyer, Los Angeles Times | December 25, 2007
WASHINGTON - The controversy over destroyed CIA videotapes has highlighted weaknesses in American intelligence agencies' methods of interrogation of Al Qaeda suspects, according to current and former officials and specialists, who say those methods are compromising the ability to extract critically important information about the threat from Islamic extremism.
The fact that the CIA and other US intelligence agencies say they have not videotaped the interrogations of potentially hundreds of other suspected terrorists indicates an outmoded level of secrecy and unprofessionalism, the current and former interrogation specialists contend.
They say that the United States is behind the curve of current best practices, and that videotaping is an essential tool in improving the methods - and results - of questioning terrorism suspects. And the accountability it provides is needed to address international concerns about the United States' use of coercive and potentially illegal techniques in interrogations, these specialists add.
The United States could learn a lot from methods used by Israel, Britain, and other countries with decades of experience in interrogating terrorists, they say, but so far, it has not.
So the lying MSM says!
Colonel Steven M. Kleinman, a reserve senior intelligence officer for the Air Force's Special Operations Command and a military interrogator in Panama and the 1991 Persian Gulf War, and in Iraq in 2003:
"We are operating in a vacuum. We are not giving our interrogators the skill set or the tool chest to get the information that we need in the war on terrorism. It is essential to take this craft to the next level and professionalize it."
A CRAFT?!
Kleinman is one of several government experts participating in a continuing study of interrogation for the Intelligence Science Board, an advisory body of the Directorate of National Intelligence and US intelligence agencies. Last year the advisory group issued its first report, a politely worded but critical document titled "Educing Information-Interrogation: Science and Art."
CIA spokesman George E. Little said he could not discuss internal interrogation practices, including whether the CIA has reviewed or analyzed videotaped interrogations of terrorism suspects made by other countries that work closely with the United States:
"The fact of the matter is that the careful, professional, and lawful questioning of hardened terrorists has produced thousands of intelligence reports, revealed exceptionally valuable insights on Al Qaeda's operations and organization, foiled terrorist plots, and saved innocent lives."
What BULLSHIT!!!!!
"Al-CIA-Duh!"
The Intelligence Science Board's report concluded that the CIA and other US intelligence agencies had done so little questioning of hostile subjects since the 1950s that individual interrogators were forced to "make it up" on the fly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks."
What a crock shit of steaming lies this article is!
