What do you think about the high value interrogation group?

"Military officials have told reporters that Umm Sayyaf, one of the people the HIG interrogated, provided invaluable information on ISIS before being turned over to Iraqi Kurdish authorities. But “the HIG hardly got anything out of her,”"

What can I say? The military (US Army) has a better pool of quality interrogators, and that's where the selection should have begun when hiring for the HIG. Again, another government backed program costing taxpayers more money than needed, when the capability to perform this function, as written, already exists with AD Mil and Ret Mil personnel who have actual experience performing this function.

If I'm making a marinara sauce, I use a lot of spices, but I'm not going to leave out the Oregano. Capice? You can't let one element over power the recipe, unless, as the MSGT said earlier, 'If it works, I'm for it.'

I'm more of on Army Lt. Col.'s school of thinking. In Iraq, he had a captive with self-professed knowledge of the whereabouts of four of his captured troopers. The Colonel's Army interrogators could not get any more out of him. The Colonel was polite when he asked him his mens' whereabouts. The response was that owing to his honor to his henchmen he could not divulge their location. The Colonel unholstered his 92F and shot the man " in the groin area". He then revealed their exact location and the troopers were rescued.

War is a function defined over and over again on each battlefield and in each separate situation. I used to be baffled, then amused and then really pissed off at the guys in the air conditioning [in and out of uniform] who defined "Right" and "Wrong".

It's victory or death, ladies. If I'm alive after the action and you think I've done something prosecutable, then bring it.

Hard to say if it is effective or not when all of the details are classified.

If it is as effective as this administration's foreign policy and economic policies I don't hold out much hope for it. Politics and ideology drive this administration more than operational effectiveness.

Do you remember the roll-out of the healthcare signup? What makes one think that their interrogation policies are any better? The POTUS doesn't listen to those in the field – he lectures them.