And the room looked a little like an interrogation room, so I began thinking about that.
It also covers information about "enhanced interrogation techniques that were applied" to Mr. Ghailani, "including descriptions of the techniques as applied, the duration, frequency, sequencing, and limitations of those techniques".
In a letter to Mr. Mukasey that was also made public on Friday by the Judiciary Committee, Senator Carl Levin, Democrat of Michigan, posed a series of questions about specific interrogation techniques that have been used by the United States against terrorism suspects and whether Mr. Mukasey found them inhumane.
This is last Sunday on Face the Nation, and CBS's Bob Schieffer is pressing Cheney about the "enhanced interrogation techniques" that were used on certain ostensibly high-value prisoners in U.S. custody.
All I could hear was [redacted] cursing, 'F-this and F-that!' I didn't say a word, I was overwhelmingly surprised, I thought they were going to execute me," Slahi wrote about the "special interrogation" plan that took place at Guantanamo in August 2003, which was personally approved by then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
All I could hear was [redacted] cursing, 'F-this and F-that!' I didn't say a word, I was overwhelmingly surprised, I thought they were going to execute me," Slahi wrote about the "special interrogation" plan that took place at Guantanamo in August 2003 and was personally approved by former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
"I don't know what [Varney] wanted from me," he told me when I asked about that interrogation, "but I was having fun.
Last September, Mitt Romney's advisers were so determined to attack President Obama from every direction and to revive long-discredited neo-con theories about interrogation that they actually encouraged the candidate to come out strongly pro-torture in his presidential campaign.
"There are fundamental questions about whether Mr. Bradbury approved interrogation methods that are clearly unacceptable," Mr. Durbin said.
Mr. Panetta's statement, along with a classified letter about interrogation policy that he sent Thursday to the Senate and House intelligence oversight committees, underscored the new administration's sharp break with one of the most controversial programs of the Bush administration.
