CIA abandons use of contract interrogators

[Peacetrain]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090410/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/cia_prisoners
CIA abandons use of contract interrogators



WASHINGTON – The CIA has stopped using contractors to interrogate prisoners and fired private security guards at the CIA's now-shuttered secret overseas prisons, agency Director Leon Panetta said Thursday.

Panetta told agency employees in an e-mail message that the guards will be replaced with CIA officers at the sites, which President Barack Obama ordered closed on his second day in office.

Terminating the private security guards who watched over the secret sites would save the agency $4 million, Panetta said. The CIA refused to provide details about the contract, including its total value and the company or companies that were fired.

[annabanana]

1. It SHOULD have been a non-starter...

a no brainer....

[Winterblues]

2. If they are "now-shuttered secret overseas prisons," then why the guards?

What are the guards guarding? :shrug: