Sunday, June 13, 2004
Dallas News: "The Army hired private interrogators to work in Iraq and Afghanistan despite its policy of barring contractors from military intelligence jobs such as interrogating prisoners. A policy memo from December 2000 says letting private workers gather military intelligence would jeopardize national security."
The article includes quotes from former Secretary of the Army Thomas White and the policy author Patrick T. Henry explaining why intelligence operations must be kept "in-house." Henry writes: "Reliance on private contractors poses risks to maintaining adequate civilian oversight over intelligence operations. Civilian oversight over intelligence operations and technologies is essential to assure intelligence operations are conducted with adequate security safeguards and within the scope of law and direction of the authorized chain of command."
The article includes quotes from former Secretary of the Army Thomas White and the policy author Patrick T. Henry explaining why intelligence operations must be kept "in-house." Henry writes: "Reliance on private contractors poses risks to maintaining adequate civilian oversight over intelligence operations. Civilian oversight over intelligence operations and technologies is essential to assure intelligence operations are conducted with adequate security safeguards and within the scope of law and direction of the authorized chain of command."
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