Military aided CIA interrogations: Report

[babylonsister]

Military aided CIA interrogations: Report
Posted April 22, 2009 8:00 AM
The Swamp

by Julian E. Barnes

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The report fills in details about the development of the Bush administration's controversial detention and interrogation policies, which were ordered discontinued by President Obama when he took office.

The report shows that military and intelligence officials started planning harsh techniques as early as February 2002, seven months before the tactics were approved by the Justice Department.

The 200-page Senate report was completed in November. Defense Department officials only recently signed off on its release.

In summer 2002, the document said, the military's Joint Personnel Recovery Agency, which oversees the SERE schools, was asked to help overcome resistance by suspected Al Qaeda operatives to interrogations.

Senior Defense officials, including the office of Undersecretary Douglas J. Feith, gave SERE officials their approval to assist the CIA, the report said.

Feith was considered a key architect of the Bush administration's war and detention policies.

more...

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/04/military_aided_cia_interrogati.html

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

1. Ah, yes, Feith. The subject of a frank and colorful description by Tommy Franks

I am so sorry that my cultured upbringing prevents me from sharing it. Anyone?

[babylonsister]

2. I guess my upbringing was less cultured than yours...

http://www.slate.com/id/2100899/

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A 2002 Washington Post profile of Feith noted that he is "disliked by many people who work with him on a daily basis," and in March 2003 the National Journal noted that "it is hard to overstate how utterly Feith is reviled in certain circles." The latest manifestation of this is the juicy quote by Gen. Tommy Franks in Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack, in which Franks calls Feith "the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth."

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

3. Sadly, most of it has eroded away.

I didn't trust myself to remember the exact phrasing but knew someone would come through. Ha! I just love that Franks said that about him.