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Statement Of John S. Pistole Executive Assistant Director Counterterrorism/Counterintelligence Federal Bureau Of Investigation Before The House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security
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John S. Pistole is a senior member of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.[1] In October 2004 Pistole was appointed the FBI's Deputy Director, the FBI's second in command. Image File history File links Wikisource-logo. ... The original Wikisource logo. ... Image File history File links Wikisource-logo. ... The original Wikisource logo. ... The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a federal criminal investigative, intelligence agency, and the primary investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ...
On August 23, 2004 Pistole testified before Congress.[2] August 23 is the 235th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (236th in leap years), with 130 days remaining. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Pistole and Valerie E. Caproni were the two FBI officials who approved a memo laying out the FBI's policy on the limits to the interrogation of captives taken during the United States' war on terror.[3] The memo was from the FBI's General Counsel, to all offices, explaining that FBI official were not allowed to engage in coercive interrogations; FBI officials were not allowed to sit in on coercive interrogations conducted by third parties; FBI officials were required to immediately report an instances of suspected coercive interrogation up the FBI chain of command. The war on terrorism or war on terror (abbreviated in U.S. policy circles as GWOT for Global War on Terror) is an effort by the governments of the United States and its principal allies to destroy groups deemed to be terrorist (primarily radical Islamist organizations such as al-Qaeda...
^ Statement Of John S. Pistole Executive Assistant Director Counterterrorism/Counterintelligence Federal Bureau Of Investigation Before The House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security. Federal Bureau of Investigation (August 23, 2004). Retrieved on April 24, 2007.