According to the Senate report summary, the pair "reverse engineered" the most effective SERE methods to develop the CIA's interrogation tactics, including the now infamous waterboarding method, despite having no experience in interrogation themselves.
But the timing of the Pentagon requests for information earlier that year suggest that senior Pentagon lawyers played an active role in developing the aggressive interrogation program.
WASHINGTON — Senior Pentagon lawyers played a more active role than previously known in developing the aggressive interrogation techniques approved for use in 2002 at the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, according to officials familiar with a Senate investigation.
James Mitchell, a CIA contractor who developed the enhanced interrogation program, wrote in his book that at one point, the chief of base at the Thailand black site walked into Zubaydah's cell and "congratulated him on the fine quality of his acting".
One batch dated from late 2007 and early 2008, when Shane had approached Kiriakou about a story he was developing on the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah.
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Two psychologists, contracted by the C.I.A. to develop and run the interrogation program, reported that Abu Zubaydah was "ready to talk" during the first exposure, but "we chose to expose him over and over until we had a high degree of confidence he wouldn't hold back".
As more data are added to FishNet we will also continue to develop tools for the interrogation of this data set to make use of this 3D resource.
