Dougie admits torture for al Queda/Iraq link.
Dougie Feith’s Little Shop of Tortures?
By: emptywheel Tuesday May 5, 2009 8:46 pm
I just happened to find Dougie Feith's responses to Questions for the Record the Senate Intelligence Committee asked him in 2003. They wanted to know how his little intelligence shop at DOD--the Policy Counter Terrorism Evaluation Group (PCTEG)--bridged the line between intelligence and policy.
He said his little intelligence shop helped formulate policy on:
* DoD response to the presence in Iraq of the al-Qaida affiliated Ansar al-Islam terrorist group.
* DoD response to the presence in Iraq of al-Qaida operative Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his CB W network.
* Helping to formulate requirements for the debriefings of al-Qaida fighters detained at Guantanamo and Bagram.
"Helping to formulate requirements for the debriefings of al-Qaida fighters?!?!?!?!"
What the hell does that mean? How do you formulate policy requirements for interrogations?
I don't know, really, but I wonder if it has something to do with this:
http://armed-services.senate.gov/Publications/Detainee%20Report%20Final_April%2022%202009.pdf This is my opinion, even though they were giving information and some of it was useful, while we were there a large part of the time we were focused on trying to establish a link between AI Qaeda and Iraq and we were not being successful in establishing a link between AI Qaeda and Iraq. The more frustrated people got in not being able to establish this link, there was more and more pressure to resort to measures that might produce more immediate results.
Or this, coming from Dougie's boss, Paul Wolfowitz:
Mr. Becker also told the Committee that, on several occasions, MG Dunlavey had advised him that the office of Deputy Secretary of Defense Wolfowitz had called to express concerns about the insufficient intelligence production at GTMO.
Or this:
Mr. Haynes's memo stated that he had discussed the issue with Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Doug Feith, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) General Richard Myers and that they concurred with his recommendation.
Anyone want to speculate whether or not
Dougie Feith was giving the torturers a script to focus on Iraq's specious ties to al Qaeda?more at:
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/05/05/dougie-feiths-little-shop-of-tortures/
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