Shuffling the interrogation deck chairs

There’s a new old policy in town for interrogation – the Associated Press calls it “a new, special terrorism-era interrogation unit to be supervised by the White House”.

The Washington Post says the new unit will be named “High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group” or “HIG”.

It sounds like something out of a Brad Thor novel. I’ve nicknamed it the “PPACP” unit – it stands for “Pretty Please, Aw C’mon, Please” because now that the White House has no one to blame except themselves, that’s the only acceptable interrogation technique from here on out.

AP says interrogators will be limited to interrogation techniques in the Army Field Manual. Here are the actual prohibited techniques from FM 32-54;

In other words, the Obama Administration is taking over the responsibility of interrogations just to prevent waterboarding – all of that other stuff has always been frowned upon and discouraged. the only thing on that list that was used legally by the Bush Administration was waterboarding. And there have been more hippies waterboarded at their demonstrations than all of the terrorists have suffered since 9-11.

Even pussywillow Matthis Chiroux survived his voluntary waterboarding.

I think this is nothing more than a token to the peace crowd who are still angry that Obama stepped up troop levels in Afghanistan (which may change soon) and because he hasn’t shut Guantanamo yet.

But, you can be sure of one thing, now that Barack Erkel is directly overseeing interrogation, the terrorists are shaking in their boots.

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Breaking News, Military issues, Phony soldiers