Obama spokesman announces interrogation unit - Yahoo! News: "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, pushing further distancing his administration from Bush administration detainee policies.
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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."
This raises serious constitutional concerns about the concentration of power within the Executive branch. If Bush had done this the left woudl have gone ballistic over Bush using the FBI to torture terrorists. At least the CIA had some amount of congressional oversight. Who is going to watch over Obama's elite team? Why is the FBI involved? Don't they investigate domestic crimes? Will this program include interrogation of American's? The whole thing scare me. Remember when Obama talked about a civillian national security force. Is this part of that? I know that is reactionary, but we are not supposed to just trust that our government will not abuse its power. The system was constructed so that there were checks and balances that kept government from being abusive. I don't think Barack likes that structure.
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