justoneminute.typepad.com - 4/24/2009
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Ali Soufan, an FBI interrogator of Abu Zubaydah joins the torture debate and explains that the enhanced interrogation techniques were unnecessary and ineffective. Based on earlier Times reporting and the DoJ Inspector General report Mr. Soufan is, well, misleading us....
online.wsj.com - 4/23/2009
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PETER HOEKSTRA Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair
got it right last week when he noted how...
easy it is to condemn the enhanced interrogation program "on a bright sunny day in April 2009." Reactions to this former CIA program, which was used ...
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Congress Knew About the Interrogations
blogs.abcnews.com - 4/24/2009
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In a letter from the Justice Department to
a federal judge yesterday, the Obama administration announced that...
the Pentagon would turn over to the American Civil Liberties Union 44 photographs showing detainee abuse of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq ...
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Obama Administration to Release Detainee Abuse Photos; ...
mcclatchydc.com - 4/25/2009
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mcclatchydc.com —
WASHINGTON — The CIA inspector general in 2004
found that there was no conclusive proof that waterboarding...
or other harsh interrogation techniques helped the Bush administration thwart any "specific imminent attacks," according to ...
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CIA official: no proof harsh techniques stopped terror ...
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Bullshit: FBI Witness Claims Zubaydah Didn't Need to be Waterboarded
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... But there are levels of cooperation. FBI agent Soufan was pleased with Zubaydah's cooperation. The CIA was not. In Thailand, the new C.I.A. team concluded that under standard questioning Mr. Zubaydah was revealing only a small fraction of what he knew, and decided that more aggressive techniques were warranted. At times, Mr. Zubaydah, still weak from his wounds, was stripped and placed in a cell without a bunk or blankets. He stood or lay on the bare floor, sometimes with air-conditioning adjusted so that, one official said, Mr. Zubaydah seemed to turn blue. At other times, ...
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Levels Of Enhancement - Ali Soufan is Misleading Us re: His role in Enhanced Interrogation Techniques
Ali Soufan, an FBI interrogator of Abu Zubaydah joins the torture ...
Addressing More Lazy Assumptions About Waterboarding and Other Harsh Questioning Techniques
Patterico's Pontifications —
... by Ali Soufan in the New York Times from Wednesday, in which Soufan says: “There was no actionable intelligence gained from using enhanced interrogation techniques on Abu Zubaydah that wasn’t, or couldn’t have been, gained from regular tactics.” But as Tom Maguire points out, during the period of time that Zubaydah was questioned using “regular tactics,” he was “stripped, held in an icy room and jarred by earsplittingly loud music,” according to the ...
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