He gave no specifics about what interrogation methods he would suggest, but he said that the agency would always abide by the law.
Repeated interrogation by Home Office officials about what they have been through – all too often conducted from a clear standpoint of officials' disbelief inadequate welfare support and difficulties in accessing the medical care and psychological services they so desperately need all serve to compound their trauma.
It may be that the revelations of the interrogation memos, ending the secrecy about what was done, will quiet the furor over torture.
Mr Schlesinger criticises the Pentagon for not being clear about what sorts of interrogation techniques were allowed.
There were no named witnesses to his initial confession, and no solid information about what form of interrogation might have prodded him to talk, although reports had been published, in the Times and elsewhere, suggesting that C.I.A. officers had tortured him.
They did this first by sowing confusion about what kinds of interrogation techniques would be permitted, then by failing to plan for the intensity of the post-invasion insurgency, and finally by delaying for months in dispatching reinforcements to help the American guards at Abu Ghraib contend with the swelling number of prisoners.
He has, at times, backed down from that position, but when he tapped Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan)., an advocate of "enhanced interrogation," to head the CIA, people worried about what they would be asked to do.
Bush's top security advisers, including Rice and Powell, were consulted about what the White House called "enhanced interrogation techniques".
They, too, are undergoing interrogation by American officials, and residents there have complained about what they say is mistreatment of the prisoners.
The practices shown in the first part of the movie tally with what the CIA has admitted about what it calls EITs, or "enhanced interrogation techniques", in an extensively redacted but still profoundly disturbing report released in 2009.
