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I wish I could find anything else to write about
Or that I could just stop looking at this subject.
But I can't.
This piece from The Guardian, is actually a tad cheering, in a backhanded way, the speaker was a contract interrogator, which he started after a career in the Army doing the same work. He is listed as a witness, not a suspect, ot a perpetrator in the TAguba report. He left Iraq in February.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1211374,00.html
"Interrogators "weren't interested in going through the less glamorous work of sifting through the chaff to get to the kernels of truth from the willing detainees; they were interested in 'breaking' tough targets", he said.
Much of the problem lay in the quality of the interrogators, Mr Nelson said; only the youngest and least experienced intelligence officers actually question detainees.
As the number of suspects sucked into the system exploded, the Pentagon came to rely increasingly on interrogators from private contractors to question them. Mr Nelson was one of a roughly 30-strong team in Abu Ghraib employed by a Virginia-based firm, CACI International. He believes his decade of experience in military intelligence made him well qualified to do the job, but he had growing doubts about his colleagues.
"I'd say about of the contractors that it's kind of a hit or miss. They're under so much pressure to fill slots quickly ... They penalise contracting companies if they can't fill slots on time and it looks bad on companies' records. If you're in such a hurry to get bodies, you end up with cooks and truck drivers doing intelligence work."
But I can't.
This piece from The Guardian, is actually a tad cheering, in a backhanded way, the speaker was a contract interrogator, which he started after a career in the Army doing the same work. He is listed as a witness, not a suspect, ot a perpetrator in the TAguba report. He left Iraq in February.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1211374,00.html
"Interrogators "weren't interested in going through the less glamorous work of sifting through the chaff to get to the kernels of truth from the willing detainees; they were interested in 'breaking' tough targets", he said.
Much of the problem lay in the quality of the interrogators, Mr Nelson said; only the youngest and least experienced intelligence officers actually question detainees.
As the number of suspects sucked into the system exploded, the Pentagon came to rely increasingly on interrogators from private contractors to question them. Mr Nelson was one of a roughly 30-strong team in Abu Ghraib employed by a Virginia-based firm, CACI International. He believes his decade of experience in military intelligence made him well qualified to do the job, but he had growing doubts about his colleagues.
"I'd say about of the contractors that it's kind of a hit or miss. They're under so much pressure to fill slots quickly ... They penalise contracting companies if they can't fill slots on time and it looks bad on companies' records. If you're in such a hurry to get bodies, you end up with cooks and truck drivers doing intelligence work."
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