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Mark Warner: “The simple reply is, you can't take an individual, no matter how many degrees they might have, in 90 days, or less, and…”

On the recordJune 16, 2004
The simple reply is, you can't take an individual, no matter how many degrees they might have, in 90 days, or less, and train them to be an interrogator. Most of the contractors now performing this work are former U.S. military individuals--people who served in the interrogation field, primarily during the cold war when the U.S. military had a significant requirement for interrogators, both in the European theater and the Korean theater.
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Mark Warner
Democratic · Virginia

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Discussing the challenges of training interrogators during a Senate floor debate.

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