The vigorous debate within the administration about what techniques were permissible in interrogations was set off when the Justice Department provided a series of memorandums to the White House and Defense Department providing narrow definitions of torture.
Interrogators were set a target number for completed interrogations, and advised to limit each session to under an hour.
The Justice Department's long-awaited ethics report on the lawyers who wrote the interrogation memorandums is set for release this summer.
The play is set up as an interrogation – literally: the set foregrounds an interview room against a backdrop of a blown-up image of a woman's face, her eyes grotesquely obscured by open mouths.
The Senate Intelligence Committee is set to vote Thursday on whether to publicly reveal the conclusions of a report on the Bush-era CIA interrogation program.
(According to Kirk Hubbard, the former head of the C.I.A.'s research and analysis division, Matarazzo served on an agency professional-standards board during the time the interrogation program was set up, but was not consulted about the interrogations).
The interrogation center was set up in September to obtain better information about an insurgency in Iraq that was killing American soldiers almost every day by last fall.
While there is no suggestion that any interrogation camps have been set up on British soil it is clear from the European parliamentary report that hundreds of "rendition" flights have passed through British airspace and landed at British airbases and airports.
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Had an F.B.I. liaison officer been assigned to the military's European Command headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany, the official said, that agent could have cut through the red tape and the interrogations could have been set up much faster.
