Jim wrote:

Interrogators hired for Iraq despite ban


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By Matt Kelley



June 12, 2004 | The Army hired private interrogators to work in Iraq and
Afghanistan despite the service's policy of barring contractors from
military intelligence jobs such as interrogating prisoners.

A policy memo from December 2000 says letting private workers gather
military intelligence would jeopardize national security.


gosh...are these the guys the Iraqis are kidnapping?