Interrogating the CIA

I just finished up the initial draft of an essay for the Weekly Standard on drone warfare, self defense, and the CIA, riffing off of my chapter in Ben Wittes’s book . One of my observations is that the Obama administration (and really the whole US government) seems to be remarkably sanguine about the other shoe dropping regarding the emerging “soft-law” campaign to undermine both drone warfare and, remarkably, the very idea of CIA covert action. So I was interested to see this closing paragraph in former CIA director Michael Hayden’s Washington Post op ed on the Christmas bomber non-interrogation: In August, the government unveiled the [High Value Detainee Interrogation Group] HIG for questioning al-Qaeda and announced that the FBI would begin questioning CIA officers about the alleged abuses in the 2004 inspector general’s report. They are apparently still getting organized for the al-Qaeda interrogations.

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Interrogating the CIA