Retired Army intelligence officer: Qualified interrogators led elsewhere
Colonel Stuart Herrington, a retired US Army intelligence officer, says that career disincentives prevent qualified individuals from becoming interrogators and that the only way to get many kinds of information is through human intelligence, a fact that is continually overlooked. (0:50)
June 18, 2008
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