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Intelligence Official: 'There Are Three Ways to Deal With a Terrorist' *February 17, 2015 - 10:10 AM * ------------------------------ *By Susan Jones <http://www.cnsnews.com/source/susan-jones>* [image: gitmo] <http://www.cnsnews.com/image/gitmo-1> Terror suspects at the U.S.-run Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba. (AP File Photo) (CNSNews.com) - "There are three ways to deal with a terrorist: You kill them, you capture them, or you turn (rehabilitate) them," Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, told the House Armed Services Committee last week. Flynn noted that right now, the U.S. isn't capturing any terrorists, and he said that's a problem, because "we probably would benefit" from capturing them. "I mean, we used to say, when I was in the Special Operations community, that had we not had the ability to professionally interrogate those that we captured, the high-value targets or the mid-value targets, we might as well take that Cadillac and bring it on home and park it in the garage, because the capturing of individuals in this environment is actually -- it's the best form of intelligence that you can get, period, bar none. "I've lived it," Flynn continued. "I've run those -- those facilities, and we know how to do them (interrogations) very professionally, because we learned a really ugly lesson over 10 years ago now. So you have to be able to do that." Flynn was responding to a question posed by Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) about the Obama administration's plan to close the detention center Guantanamo Bay, where terror suspects have been detained and questioned since 2002. Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.), the committee's ranking member, said he believes the U.S. needs to detain its enemies, but he doesn't think Guantanamo Bay is the place to keep them: "Is there any reason that we couldn't take these people, as we have in many instances, and detain them here in the United States?" Smith asked. "So we definitely need to be able to capture, because if we only kill -- that, to me, is a moral problem," Flynn responded. "[I]f we bring them into the United States and they get read their habeas corpus rights, that stops the process of being able to get the kind of information that you can get through very professionally done interrogations. I'm telling you, I've seen it...I have been involved in thousands of interrogation operations," Flynn said. He admitted that law enforcement personnel can sometimes get useful intelligence out of suspects after reading them their Miranda rights, but "it's a lot slower." "I'm not a lawyer," Flynn said, "but I just know that there's probably going to be a different set of conditions when we bring them inside the United States because we don't have designated combat zones anymore. But wherever they -- wherever they go, we have to be able to capture these individuals to be able to get the intelligence out of them. We have to," Flynn insisted. __._,_.___ ------------------------------ Posted by: "beowulf" <[email protected]> ------------------------------ Visit Your Group <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmcW1icDJ1BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0MjQxOTkxNjM-> [image: Yahoo! Groups] <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo;_ylc=X3oDMTJlMDEzZDgxBF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNnZnAEc3RpbWUDMTQyNDE5OTE2Mw--> • Privacy <https://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/groups/details.html> • Unsubscribe <[email protected]?subject=Unsubscribe> • Terms of Use <https://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/> __,_._,___ -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
