CIA will be in charge of questioning Saddam

[Tinoire]

WASHINGTON Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Tuesday that the Central Intelligence Agency would be in charge of interrogating Saddam Hussein, and he strongly defended the treatment of the former Iraqi leader since his capture Saturday as legal, proper and humane.

The decision to entrust the C.I.A. with Hussein's interrogation was an easy one, Rumsfeld said. "It was a three-minute decision," he said, "and the first two were for coffee."

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"They have the competence in that area, they have professionals in that area, they know the means that we have in terms of counterterrorism, they know the threads that have to come up through the needlehead," he said.

The intelligence agency will serve as "the regulator" of information flowing from the questioning, Rumsfeld said at a Pentagon news briefing. The secretary strongly defended the treatment of the captive, declaring that it has been humane and that showing pictures of the bedraggled ex-dictator to the world in no way violated international standards on handling prisoners.

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In any case, the defense secretary said, if there was any prospect whatsoever that the televising of images of Saddam in captivity would help deflate or discourage those fighting against the coalition led by the United States, "then we opt for saving lives." "He has been handled in a professional way," Rumsfeld said in a Pentagon news briefing. "He has not been held up as a public curiosity in any demeaning way."

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http://www.iht.com/articles/121781.html

[SeveneightyWhoa]

1. What a perfect opportunity..

..to try out some new brainwashing techniques!
Saddam, in two months: "Yes, I admit, I had weapons of mass destruction. But Democratic Presidential nominee Wesley Clark helped me send them to Iran and Syria! Attack all three!"

[Manix]

2. ...Rumsfield is such a prick...can't stand to listen to him

nt

[truthisfreedom]

3. wasn't the CIA responsible for saddam being in power in the first place?

so isn't this a little like letting the corrupt cops do the interrogation?

[lostnfound]

4. Well...they know him better than anyone! n/t

[0007]

6. ...like trusting the fox to protect the chickens!

This is not a good sign.

[IndianaGreen]

5. If Saddam was given POW status, then the CIA cannot interrogate him

I am thankful to the Bush regime for showing me how they should be treated after they are toppled from power as all tyrants invariably are.

Imperialism is the last stage of capitalism!

[0007]

7. At least we're not fighting those dirty rotten commies that looked like us

At least we know what those terrorist look like, 'eh? 'Gotta keep our eyes peeled.'

[kentuck]

9. Saddam, we're going to give you a little shot..it will make you a ....

..little drowsy. But we will put nothing into your body that will kill you instantly...maybe in a week or two....but not instantly. We're going to ask you a couple of questions...Saddam?...Saddam?....Saddam!

[SpiralHawk]

8. Now Poppy will get Saddam in the Skull & Boner KRyPt

and he and Shrubby can have their way with that "evil" swarthy man....

[bearfan454]

10. Torture time !

[bobthedrummer]

11. Why this show trial will be bigger than the McCarthy hearings and HUAC

the neo-cons are still in the background though so the CIA can't be over-joyed at this assignment. Truth serums and torture it is.
Pentagon muzzles the CIA link
http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/22/dreyfuss-r.html
Cabal link
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?030512fa_fact