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Posted By John Moore on July 28, 2003

I heartily recommend the Chief Wiggles blog.

The Chief is working with Iraqi POWs in the Middle East. His blog describes his work, his thoughts about it and his feelings. Not only is the blog fascinating, but his attitude towards his work and his wards represents the best of America. He is a thoughtful, humane man with a hard job to do, and he puts deep thought and vast experience into doing so. He then writes it up in an eloquent and moving fashion.

Here is an excerpt which describes his professional background and attitude:

To continue my remarks regarding our treatment of prisoners, I can only speak from my own experience and from my own perspective relating to the area of the process that I am responsible for. I am an interrogation team chief, senior interrogator, been in the Army National Guard for the past 33 years. I have been on two deployments, two wars, and been on over 40 exercises in South Korea. I have personally participated in or witnessed countless interrogations of all types of detainees or sources. In all my years I have never witnessed or felt a need to use inhumane or cruel punishment in order to extract intelligence from the individual. Quite on the contrary, I personally feel that the utilization of psychological approaches is by far more affective in obtaining true information. Gaining the prisoners trust and respect is by far the most affective method

Read his blog and be thankful that this man is serving our nation!

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