Delta’s Ongoing Selection: Resisting Interrogation (Part 7)

With a cheeky grin smeared across my face, I deftly maneuvered through the legal quagmire they hurled at me, but alas, the photo log of the National Guard Compound was the cold, hard slap of reality that ended my whimsical escapade in a room buzzing with the stern faces of law.

What’s next for the ex-Special Forces operators caught in Venezuela?

Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE). This training has been pertinent for the former Army Green Berets Luke Denman and Airan Berry since their prompt capture on Monday, May 4. Despite the perceived circumstances, the politics, and the backstory, one thing is certain — these two brothers are having the worst days of their Earthly […]

Interrogation 101: The Art of the Deal

Interrogation provides valuable information that protects American lives, identifies and develops targets, and is a skill set comprised of thoughtful approaches and focus.

SOCOM is testing a ‘mind reading’ system that can help SOF troops conduct interrogations

In the Netflix series, “Daredevil,” superhero-lawyer Matt Murdock has an, arguably, unfair advantage over criminals in court: He can use his heightened senses to measure changes in a person’s biometrics like heart rate, perspiration and temperature. Over the years, he’s developed a pretty attuned understanding of how these physiological responses correlate with things like nervousness […]

Watch: Police in Indonesia use live snake to interrogate suspect

Police officers in Papua, Indonesia are in hot water after a video surfaced online of detectives using a snake to scare a robbery suspect during an interrogation. The video shows the suspect sitting on the floor against a wall with his hands tied behind his back. A police officer drapes a large snake over the […]

Opinion: A Matter of Honor and the Fiction of Malcolm Nance

Reminiscent of Hillary Clinton’s “deplorable” comments when she referred to supporters of then candidate Donald Trump, MSNBC analyst Malcolm Nance — and self-appointed counter-terrorism, cryptology, intelligence, interrogation and linguistics expert — has stated that all military persons that support the President are “not honorable.” As a retired Senior Chief (E-8), Airborne Mission Supervisor, cryptologist (Arabic) and […]

Delta’s ongoing selection: Resisting interrogation (Part 7)

(Read part six here) Dedicated to SOFREP family member Ms. Joni S The drive to FBI headquarters was short enough, but me and handcuffs just don’t see eye to eye. It’s just something about my arms at that angle behind my back, that’s totally disenchanting to my rotator cuffs. Yeah, you’re not likely to see […]

Al Qaeda interrogator on CIA black sites: Reopening them is ‘a known path to disaster’

The Trump administration has drafted an executive order to reopen the secret detention and interrogation facilities known as “black sites” used for years by the Central Intelligence Agency to detain suspected enemy combatants around the world. Some former CIA officers and officials are wary of the plan, however. The order would revoke President Obama’s 2009 executive […]

White House draft order calls for review on use of CIA ‘black site’ prisons overseas

An executive order drafted by the Trump administration calls for a policy review that could authorize the CIA to reopen “black site” prisons overseas and potentially restart an interrogation program that was dismantled in 2009 after using methods widely condemned as torture. The document, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Post, would […]