From The Washington Independent:Proposal Implicitly Lowers CIA Status on Questioning Terror Suspects
The task force charged with fleshing out President Obama’s ban on torture in interrogations is likely to recommend the creation of small, mixed-agency teams for interviewing the most important terrorist targets. Representing an implicit demotion of the CIA, which currently has responsibility for interrogating high-level terrorists, the teams would report jointly to the attorney general and the director of national intelligence, according to officials familiar with the proposal.
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My Comment: This is a clear demotion for the CIA. In addition, the FBI's involvement will not only guarantee that US law will be applied to detainees if they are captured abroad, but it will also force the FBI to have a permanent presence in international conflict zones (Afghanistan being one of them).
Will this mean interrogation procedures will now follow U.S. law .... probably. Will this work? Probably not.
The official report still has to be released, and it is only then that a better understanding on what will be the rules for interrogating detainees be known. But when released I can predict with certainty what will be the outcome of its implementation .... I expect more intra-agency conflicts and battles over jurisdiction .... and I can easily see less intelligence being gathered and used in a timely matter.
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