He proposed establishing a new interrogation and debriefing center and ensuring that military police officers were assigned to help set the conditions for questioning.
The two greeted Assange with hugs, and Gittoes handed him a book: "Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein," by John Nixon, a former C.I.A. agent who interviewed the Iraqi leader and came to believe that he had been misunderstood.
Under questioning he has said that he did not meet with Mohamed Atta in Prague, according to the officials, who have reviewed classified debriefing reports based on the interrogations.
He added that when this man was arrested for the second time, officials from the British high commission in Dhaka contacted police and asked to be debriefed on the results of his interrogation.
Keron Fletcher, a consultant psychiatrist who has helped debrief and treat hostages, says mock detention and interrogation exercises of the kind he himself underwent while serving with the Royal Air Force are a good preparation for the shock of capture.
Anticev, Cloonan, and Coleman — three men who have spent countless hours debriefing Al Qaeda operatives — all take issue with the kinds of rough interrogations that have characterized the Bush Administration's approach since September 11th.
The cable also indicated who should participate in future interrogations: Psychologists, like Swigert and Dunbar, "familiar with interrogation, exploitation and resistance to interrogation should shape compliance of high value captives prior to debriefing by substantive experts".
Asked if "enhanced" interrogation techniques were necessary to keep America safe, he replied, "Would the U.S. be handicapped if the C.I.A. was not, in fact, able to carry out these types of detention and debriefing activities?
He was under interrogation.
