CIA bars contractors from doing interrogations

[RamboLiberal]

Source: CNN

CIA Director Leon Panetta has carried through on his pledge to prohibit independent contractors from conducting interrogations of terror suspects.

In a message to agency employees on Thursday, Panetta said he had notified the congressional oversight committees about the current CIA policy regarding interrogations.

Besides discontinuing the use of contractors, the director outlined in the message other steps taken in response to executive orders issued by President Obama in January.

The harsh interrogation techniques authorized by the Bush administration will no longer be used. Panetta said questioning of suspected terrorists will follow the approaches authorized in the Army Field Manual.

The director said the agency will "not tolerate, and will continue to promptly report, any inappropriate behavior or allegations of abuse."



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/09/panetta.interrogations/index.html

[FrenchieCat]

1. Thank heavens!

[Maat]

2. One step toward restoring Sanity!

Thank you, Leon Panetta!

I pray that this is for real, and that there are NO exceptions!

This law school graduate is beginning to feel SO MUCH BETTER.

[Hope And Change]

3. Thanks for posting.K & R!

[Piewhacket]

4. C- FOR MEETING MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS OF NON-CRIMINAL CONDUCT. NOW

GET OFF YOUR ASS OBAMA AND

1) RESTORE RULE OF LAW
2) RESTORE CIVIL LIBERTIES AND MAKE DAMN SURE THEY CAN'T BE UN-RESTORED
3) ROUND UP AND PROSECUTE THOSE WHO COMMITTED OR ORDERED TORTURE.!
4) ROUND UP THE CRIMINAL CLASS THAT ACTUALLY THREATENED THE NATIONAL SECURITY OF THE US
BY CORRUPTION AND LOOTING IN VIOLATION OF OR COLOR OF LAW.

BEFORE THAT MINIMUM GRADE IS RECONSIDERED.
(AND I'M ACTUALLY ONE OF YOUR FRIENDS, OR SO I WAS THINKING)

[earcandle]

5. GO OBAMA!

Thank you for your intelligence, compassion and ability to
deal with ambiguity, a sign of mental health.  Because you
hold personal choices to access some projections to adorn
yourself (believe in God), I ask God to bless you.  Be well.  

[mopinko]

6. but, but, but obama is just like bush

isn't he?

[heliarc]

7. Oh dear... what will they do...

without plausible deniability. I'm sure that half of the effing contractors who might be doing some of the interrogations are NOC anyway.

What a lot of BS all of this is anyway.

[EFerrari]

8. Why does anyone ever believe anything CIA says? I don't understand it. n/t