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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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Treatment of Prisoners and Detainees

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, its second in command.

On August 23, 2004 Pistole testified before Congress about changes the FBI made in response to the 9/11 Commission.^[2]

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 any instances of suspected coercive interrogation up the FBI chain of command.

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