A detainee strolls inside the open-air yard at the Camp Four detention facility on the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba in May. The Obama administration is considering a plan to overhaul interrogation of 'high-value' detainees. Associated PressFrom The Wall Street Journal:
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is considering overhauling the way terror suspects are interrogated by creating a small team of professionals drawn from across the government, according to people familiar with a proposal that will be submitted to the White House.
The new unit, comprising members of spy services and law-enforcement agencies, would be used for so-called high-value detainees, they said. In a switch from Bush-era efforts, it wouldn't be run by the Central Intelligence Agency, though who might be in charge isn't specified.
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My Comment: The sentence that got my attention was the following:
.... devise a new set of interrogation methods, .... Those techniques could be drawn from sources ranging from scientific studies to the psychology behind television ads .....
Television ads?
Who are they kidding.