McCain: Army interrogation specialty needed

[unhappycamper]

McCain: Army interrogation specialty needed
By Jim Davenport - The Associated Press
Posted : Saturday Dec 15, 2007 17:23:14 EST

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Republican White House hopeful John McCain said he wants “a crash program” in civilian and military schools that emphasizes language and creates a “new specialty in strategic interrogation” so the nation never feels the need for torture.

McCain, a former Vietnam prisoner of war who suffered mistreatment, talked about the new proposal at a Columbia campaign stop Saturday.

McCain said he wanted to create an Army Advisory Corps of 20,000 soldiers to act as military advisers and a new Office of Strategic Services to fight terrorists. He said he wanted them to pursue “a crash program in civilian and military schools” to prepare more experienced speakers in strategically important languages — such as Arabic, Chinese, Farsi and others — and to “create a new specialty in strategic interrogation — a new, a new group of strategic interrogators so that we never have to feel motivated to torture anyone ever again.”

When asked if he knew if U.S. forces had engaged in torture in the past, the Arizona senator said he didn’t.

“I do not know whether they’ve been involved in torture because I don’t have that kind of information,” McCain said. “I do know that when tapes are destroyed of interrogations, it contributes enormously to the cynicism, the skepticism and also is further damaging to the image of the United States of America in the world.”


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/12/ap_mccaintorture_071215/

[rakeeb]

1. to quote Monty Python: "We already got one, you see........"

Army MOS 97E
USMC MOS 0251


The Human Intelligence Collector (HUMINT Collector) supervises and conducts tactical HUMINT collection operations that include, but are not limited to, debriefings, interrogations and elicitations in English and foreign languages for positive intelligence and force protection information; screens Human Intelligence (HUMINT) sources and documents to establish priorities for exploitation; under CI supervision, plans and participates in counterintelligence and Force Protection Operations (CFSO). Translates and exploits captured enemy documents, foreign language and open source publications. Prepares and edits appropriate intelligence and administrative reports; utilizes CI/HUMINT reporting and communications equipment; uses interpreters and manages interpreter/translator operations; conducts liaison and coordination in foreign language with host nation agencies; conducts analysis and performs briefings as required.

[noamnety]

2. "I do not know ...

whether they’ve been involved in torture because I don’t have that kind of information"



McCain is a fucking asshole.

That is all.