From Time Magazine:If President Obama greenlights a proposal to create an inter-agency team of interrogators to handle terrorist suspects, it will be — as Samuel Johnson said sardonically of second marriages — the triumph of hope over experience. The history of inter-agency cooperation on interrogation is both brief and bleak.
In the aftermath of 9/11, the CIA, lacking experience in interrogating jihadis, turned to experts from a military school where soldiers are trained to resist torture. These experts came up with a range of "coercive" interrogation techniques, including the now-infamous water-board. When these methods were employed at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, the methods led to an angry confrontation over their legality between interrogators from the FBI and the CIA. Eventually, the FBI withdrew from the interrogations — an less than amiable divorce, so to speak.
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My Comment: Who would want to have such a job? With Congress preparing to have hearings on what had happened during the past 8 years on suspected terrorists in detention, and with Attorney General Holder preparing to make a decision to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate how interrogations were conducted .... you would have to be a fool to assume responsibility for this department.
You may have the approval of Congress and the President today .... but a different administration in the future may have a different opinion .... and hence start this entire proprietorial process again.
The question is not "Can the CIA and FBI work together again?" .... but do either of them want to even touch this with a 10 foot pole, and if ordered to by the President and Congress .... will their be any "enthusiasm" to take on the mission.
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