An Extraordinary Officer: The Exception to the Rule‏

[sophia_sadek]

Ali Soufan is a naturalized American citizen who recently published a memoir of his stint working for the FBI. He describes his experience interrogating members of al-Qaeda in order to obtain actionable intelligence on subsequent operations. He also details some of the more serious problems caused by "enhanced" interrogation methods and the

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[meus_ovatio]

Soufan is not a typical Hoover boy. he does not fit the mold of the corn-fed fundamentalist Christian zealot that people think of when they think of the FBI.
lolwhut?

[paedraggaidin]

Heh, when I think of the FBI, I think of hard-drinking Irish Catholics from Boston, Chicago, and New York.

[meus_ovatio]

There's all kinds of tropes about the FBI, and "corn-fed Christian fundamentalist" ain't one of them. Someone is far too gone in their own soup to realize that their idiosyncratic world-view isn't very representative of other people's world-views.

[sophia_sadek]

It got a rise out of at least one TPer.

[underlankers]

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[luvdovz]

Of course I have. We all do. Twin Peaks and The X-Files. Duh.

[devil_ad_vocate]

Ward Churchill wrote a book? Were there any original ideas in it?

[meus_ovatio]

He was full of "original" ideas, in that "original" means "made up, fabricated, etc. etc."

[sophia_sadek]

He is not the only person to write about Cointelpro. If you think that stuff was fabricated, you deserve a medal for suckerhood.

[meus_ovatio]

Who said anything about cointelpro?

[terminator44]

You've brought up at least three different tangents in this post and didn't go anywhere with any of them. Keep to one topic per post, dude. It'll be easier to absorb and discuss.

[sophia_sadek]

The focus of the post is FBI tactics. That should be pretty obvious. Judging by the responses, few have been exposed to the darker side of FBI history and rely on the entertainment industry for information about the Bureau.