By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
George Piro, the Beirut-born Assyrian-American FBI agent who was the team leaders and lead interrogator of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, has been named assistant director of the International Operations Division at FBI headquarters. His most recent assignment was head of the Miami field office.
Piro joined the FBI in 1999, and was first assigned to the Phoenix Division, where he worked international terrorism cases.
During his FBI career, Mr. Piro has held leadership positions in the Counterterrorism Division, the Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate, the Washington Field Office and as a member of the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group.
