Michael Scheuer: "Komunitas intelijen AS dibungkam oleh pengacara. Ket...

"Komunitas intelijen AS dibungkam oleh pengacara. Ketika kami akan menangkap Osama bin Laden, misalnya, para pengacara lebih mementingkan keselamatan dan kenyamanan bin Laden daripada mereka dengan petugas yang ditugasi menangkapnya. Kami harus membangun kursi yang dirancang secara ergonomis untuk menempatkannya, kenyamanan khusus dalam hal bagaimana ia dibelenggu ke kursi. Mereka bahkan khawatir tentang jenis kaset apa yang membuatnya muntah sehingga tidak akan mengganggu janggutnya. Pengacara adalah kutukan bagi komunitas intelijen."

--- Michael Scheuer

Versi Bahasa Inggris

The U.S. intelligence community is palsied by lawyers. When we were going to capture Osama bin Laden, for example, the lawyers were more concerned with bin Laden's safety and his comfort than they were with the officers charged with capturing him. We had to build an ergonomically designed chair to put him in, special comfort in terms of how he was shackled into the chair. They even worried about what kind of tape to gag him with so it wouldn't irritate his beard. The lawyers are the bane of the intelligence community.