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Showing posts with label A Soldier's Perspective. Show all posts
Showing posts with label A Soldier's Perspective. Show all posts

Monday, August 24, 2009

re: "Specialized Interrogation Unit May Be Created"

C.J. at A Soldier's Perspective ("personal information, views and commentary about the military") pretty much made a mockery of this proposal.

This is of a piece of one of our perpetual mistakes: conflating law enforcement solutions to warfare problems.

Money quote(s):

"(T)he Department of Justice will now be leading interrogations ofhigh value targets of military importance. Oh, and these"interrogations" will happen "without the use of coercion." Yeah,good luck with that!"

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"Anyway the unit should be awesome! Naturally, the administration noted that "based on where things stand now, the CIA isn't slated to be the lead on whatever plan is put into place." Phsaw! Why would ANYONE in their right mind put an agency in charge who only does this sort of thing for a living and has buttloads of experience?! That would just be dumb!"