Obama Spokesman Announces Interrogation Unit

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By STEVEN R. HURST and DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press Writers – 17 mins ago

– President Barack Obama has approved creation of a new, special terrorism-era interrogation unit to be supervised by the White House, a top aide said Monday, further distancing his administration from President George W. Bush's detainee policies.

The new unit does not mean the CIA is now out of the interrogation business, deputy White House press secretary Bill Burton told reporters covering the vacationing Obama at Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, Mass.

Burton said the unit will include "all these different elements under one group," and it said that it will be situated at the FBI headquarters in Washington. The unit would be led by an FBI official, with a deputy director from somewhere in the government's vast intelligence apparatus, and members from across agencies. It will be directly supervised by the White House.

Separately, Burton said that a recommendation now before Attorney General Eric Holder to reopen and pursue prisoner abuse cases is a decision solely for Holder to make without any intervention from the president.

More: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090824/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_cia_interrogations

Obama is distancing himself from Holder's decision so to try and lessen the distraction in the middle of the healthcare debate. We'll see what happens.

Any bet's what the spin will be?

I'm thinking "turning into a police state, this allows the Gov't to torture Grandma for not making a living will" or something along the common theme of "The Gov't is sending the black helicopters to git ya".

ing moronic halfwit, is "Brilliant" YOUR OPINION???

Let me explain to ya son, you need a new assignment
sweeping out the executive assistant offices late night.
Don't bother coming in during the day.

G*damn, are all the DEMs flipping stupid too?

Lets face it, the Washington Post wrote about the new policy and it is only logical and proper to respond to press questions relative to that story. I think it was handled professionally although maybe the under secretary of press should have worn a tie and put down his water bottle. Otherwise he did a very good job. Further, who gives a flying fig what the hatemongering Republicons think anyways. Where were those cretins during Bush's Reign of Terror for Eight Torturous Years?

President Obama is all over it and has it well under control. Nothing will stop the Rightwing Loons from aspirating bile and their own shit whether a few terrorists are rounded up for "interviews" at the FBI or whether or not Fox Faux News goes Postal over the new approach to intel gathering and interviewing terrorists by experts.

If the GOP asks just tell them what I tell them "F@@K YOU" Load the buses up and save a few seats for Limbaugh, Michael Reagan, Savage, Beck, & Fox & Friends!

As part of something larger. His role is part smoke screen and part holding action. I think there are a lot of big republicans, elected and 'Retired' that will go ape shit about the news that we are again investigating torture. I can't remember who said it, but it went something like, "Leverage, I need more leverage."