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President Barack Obama has approved to set up an elite interrogation team under White House oversight to question terror suspects, in a further rejection of his predecessor George W Bushs war on terror tactics. According to deputy press secretary of the White House Bill Burton, the new interrogation unit would be named the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG). Burton said that the move would absolve the CIA of the duty of grilling terror suspects, and the team would be housed at the FBI but under direct oversight of the National Security Council. Details of the new approach for dealing with top terror detainees were revealed as the US Justice Department readies the disclosure of new details of prisoner abuse gathered in 2004 but never released.
