Gen. Geoffrey Miller, the American commander in charge of detentions and interrogations, said that the number of "high-value" intelligence reports drawn from interrogations of Iraqi prisoners had increased by more than half on a monthly basis since January.
The military defines a "high value" intelligence report as one that describes what is regarded as a significant piece of information about the insurgency.
It was high value intelligence that even an hour or two later might have been worthless.
Astonishingly, the document admitted that 60% of the UK's high-value intelligence "is based on either NSA end-product or derived from NSA collection".
While the technology behind trusted and automated information sharing is in place, most of the data shared is not particularly high-value intelligence ― either because the federal government is unwilling to declassify it or, by the time it is declassified, the information is stale.
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Sept. 6 - American interrogators working in Iraq have obtained as much as 50percentt more high-value intelligence since a series of coercive practices like hooding, stripping and sleep deprivation were banned, a senior American official said Monday.
A12 American interrogators working in Iraq have obtained as much as 50percentt more high-value intelligence since a series of coercive practices like stripping were banned, a senior American official said.
That meant that interrogators would get a rare first crack at talking to prisoners of high intelligence value -- the kind that did not usually land at Abu Ghraib unless they had been interrogated elsewhere.
The $40 million, five-year study concluded that CIA officials exaggerated the value of the intelligence they gleaned from dozens of "high-value detainees" held at black site prisons, where they were subjected to so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" such as sleep deprivation and waterboarding.
Still, he added, "The most important source of intelligence we had after 9/11 came from the interrogations of high-value detainees".
But although a Pentagon official said today that the mission had been based on evidence of "high-value individuals" in the area, authorities in Kandahar expressed the suspicion that the United States had operated on flawed intelligence.
