Interagency interrogation teams have started to question key terrorism suspects under a classified charter approved last week, but authorities have been slower to resolve pressing issues that emerged since Christmas — including how to draw the line between gathering intelligence and building a legal case, according to federal officials and experts following the process.
The High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group, announced to fanfare by White House officials last summer, was not formally authorized until Jan. 28, under a previously unreported 14-page memo signed by the president's national security adviser, Gen. James L. Jones. The delay became a matter of political debate last month after members of Congress asked why the group had been not deployed to interrogate Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who is accused of trying to detonate an explosive Dec. 25 on an airliner about to land in Detroit.
via Interagency teams can now question terror suspects – washingtonpost.com.
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Don’t tell me, is this the first sign of a cohesive approach where the left hand knows what the right hand is doing? Good for your boys, better late than never…
Obviously an approach of this nature should have been implemented from the get go instead of the turf wars that we experienced between rival agencies.