He recently completed a three-week American course to retrain officers in work like interrogation, note-taking and human rights.
There were three basic courses, each with 10 to 20 students, according to the interrogation notes.
Mr. Scarcella's underlying interrogation notes were missing, a lapse that shows up in other Scarcella cases.
Poring over his interrogation notes on Nosenko and his files on other espionage cases, Bagley began to notice disturbing contradictions and anomalies.
Mr. Vinas, according to the interrogation notes, converted to Islam in 2004, and considers himself a member of the Salafi sect, a rigorously fundamentalist strain of Sunni Islam.
But he defended practices like depriving prisoners of sleep and forcing them into "stress positions" as legitimate means of interrogation, noting that they are among 50-odd coercive techniques sometimes used against enemy detainees.
His office can refer matters for criminal prosecution; legal experts said the most likely outcome was a public critique of the legal opinions on interrogation, noting that Mr. Jarrett had the power to reprimand or to seek the disbarment of current or former Justice Department lawyers.
Relentless tracking shots and dumbwaiters used to disorienting effect move us up, down and through the building, along endless hallways, into officelike interrogation chambers (note the padded doors), past revolving file boxes once filled with dossiers.
Mr. Yoo's harshest critics — including lawyers for Jose Padilla, the convicted Qaeda operative who is suing Mr. Yoo for $1 and a judicial declaration that he authorized illegal detention and interrogation practices — note that Nazi lawyers and judges were tried for war crimes at Nuremberg.
In May, 2004, for instance, an F.B.I. memo entitled "Detainee Interviews (Abusive Interrogation Issues)" noted the Bureau's "concerns" and "objections" to "sere techniques to interrogate prisoners".
After listening to an excerpt of Hamid's interrogation, Mr. Wedick noted, "They're leading him, and it's ridiculous, it's shameful; it's shameful because I've never seen the department do this before".
