Fresh from yet another round of revelations in Goingbackwardville, the Administration has decided to set up the High Value Detainee Interrogation Program or HIG to deal with high value detainees in the future, assuming we actually catch any.
Mostly, this is about Movingforwardville wanting to appear to be more reasonable, namely by having the Army field manual be the basis for interrogations, having the State Department along for the ride to Extraordinary Renditionville, and coordinating, yet again, the training and methods used by the FBI, CIA, and other interrogating bodies.
Of course, extraordinary rendition and secret prisons will continue, and continue to produce absolutely nothing of any intelligence value, but that’s more important than things like habeas corpus or holding officials accountable for authorizing and condoning torture.
Gorilla thinks: “A HIGup is better when the jig’s up, I suppose!”
