I missed this. For weeks, the right has heckled Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. for his plans to try the alleged 9/11 conspirators in New York City and his handling of the Christmas bombing plot suspect. Now the left is going to be upset: an upcoming Justice Department report from its ethics-watchdog unit, the Office [...]
Ali H. Soufan, F.B.I. special agent from 1997 to 2005, writes for the New York Times: The inspector general’s report distinguishes between intelligence gained from regular interrogation and from the harsher methods, which culminate in waterboarding. While the former produces useful intelligence, according to the report, the latter “is a more subjective process and not [...]
Administration reactions to the Office Of The Inspector General’s report on CIA Counterterrorism Detention and Interrogation Activities: [The Obama Administration] wrested control of future interrogations of suspected senior al-Qaeda members away from the CIA and handed it to an interagency group that will be housed at the FBI — whose agents had not only objected [...]