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Feds Plan to Build Team of Terror Interrogation Pros

By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted Jul 18, 2009 9:16 AM CDT

(Newser) – The Obama administration is working on plans to create a team of interrogation experts drawn from different agencies, insiders tell the Wall Street Journal. The unit would take the job of debriefing "high-value" terror suspects away from the CIA, the sources say, and would... Read full story »

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