Two of Fox's highly trained official special advisers – Coffey and Oliver Waghorn – are paid £60,740 a year, while Hayden Allan collects at least £52,215, giving a total wage bill of at least £173,695 a year.
The new government can draw on very few trained officials.
That process is managed by a specific branch of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services based in Vermont, where officials are highly trained in secrecy and in dealing with domestic violence situations.
Unlike the C.I.A., the F.B.I. did not recruit a professional group of highly trained analysts with access to senior agency officials.
Overall, American officials said that the most senior Iraqi officials now in custody were proving to be highly trained in resisting American interrogation techniques, even if they were coercive, and that they had provided little information of value about Mr. Hussein.
But the official cautioned that the presence of highly trained combat and special operations troops did not necessarily mean that investigators considered the vessel a serious threat.
Union officials say the jail's most experienced, most highly trained deputies have been removed and replaced by civilians.
Some former and current officials say the HIG's interrogators are all highly trained counterterrorism officers, and that experienced interrogators covet spots on the force.
All the signs, officials say, point to a well-planned action carried out by a highly trained, determined group.
"He's very intelligent, a highly trained economist, but he's too eager to promise," said a top-ranking government official who has worked closely with Mr. Toledo.
