Why Don’t We Just Write Tickets for Attempted Terrorists, Then?
January 25, 2010
We’d save even more time, and other countries would like us more. Or they would say that they like us more, which is the same thing.
the law-enforcement model of counterterrorism cost us an opportunity to get valuable intel from an active terrorist. The interrogators were more concerned about a judge in a criminal court than they were about other terrorist attacks that may be coming against the US. We had an opportunity to learn about contacts, places, leadership, any active recruiting cells in London or Nigeria, all of which would have taken longer than 50 minutes to unwind out of a man in excruciating pain from setting his own balls on fire.
No one thought to call the military to handle Abdulmutallab. And even if anyone had thought to call in the specialized High-Value Interrogation Group to conduct the interrogation, the HIG teams aren’t assembled yet, a year after Barack Obama disbanded their predecessors. The local FBI decided to keep Abdulmutallab in the criminal system without ever consulting the leadership of the counterterrorist efforts in DNI, NCTC, or DHS, all of whom got informed afterward of the decision as a fait accompli.
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