In addition, one of the most experienced interrogators in the U.S. military with experience conducting interrogations dating back to Panama is Colonel Steve Kleinman, an Air Force Reservist.
Among Americans conducting interrogations in Iraqi prisons, members of the Iraq Survey Group, under the command of Maj.
The president restated his opposition to prosecuting C.I.A. operatives who followed the Bush administration's legal guidelines in conducting interrogations.
By 2010, contractors constituted 30 percent of the people working for American intelligence agencies, and private sector employees were conducting interrogations, recruiting spies and abducting suspected terrorists.
Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California and the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, had proposed legislation banning contractors from conducting interrogations, saying the job was too important to outsource.
Asked if he has worked with the C.I.A., conducting interrogations, he said, "If that was true, I couldn't say anything about it".
After Oxford, le Carre taught at Eton for a while, before joining M.I.5 as a full-time official in 1958; his work consisted of running agents, conducting interrogations, tapping phones, and performing authorized break-ins.
By 1960, still working on his novel, he had transferred to the foreign intelligence service, MI6, working in Bonn and Hamburg, and perhaps — he does not discuss specifics — tapping phones, running agents, conducting interrogations and performing authorized break-ins.
During that time, she and other agents were involved in setting up and conducting interrogations of a terrorism suspect, Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed, an Eritrean man who had been taken into custody by the Nigerians.
The belief that "other governmental agencies were conducting interrogations using harsher techniques than allowed" under Army rules fostered "the belief that such methods were condoned," according to the report released on Tuesday by the panel headed by James R. Schlesinger.
