In solitary confinement, under interrogation, cut off from the outside world, accused of the most serious crimes against the state, I found these endlessly repeated assertions sinister: part of a world of secret cabals, plotters, and conspiracies in which I was supposedly involved without being aware of it.
Even if these scientific Saddamites hang tough, such off-site interrogation of supposed Saddam loyalists would give cover to other Iraqi scientists similarly transported to places where the truth can be told safely.
"One of them, I know, goofed on his interrogation of Manuel — he forgot to read off one of Manuel's rights before he started asking questions".
The interrogation was cut off, losing what Mr. Soufan regarded as a possible lead on the whereabouts of Bin Laden.
Two days after the second interrogation, Scobey signed off on Ahmed's termination, and ordered a junior officer named Rebecca Fong to go down to Ahmed's office and, in front of his tearful American and Iraqi colleagues, fire him.
Hodge is especially maligned within the Treasury, which briefed after her clash with Google, Amazon and Starbucks executives that her chilling style of interrogation is putting off companies from investing in Britain.
Cue fight over best "ears-off" interrogation technique.
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.
Especially when monsters like Abdulmutallab, who are on government watch lists for being known or suspected terrorists, are not pulled out of the security lines, subjected to thorough searches and interrogations, and yanked off flights.
Several former intelligence officials also said there was great concern that the tapes, which recorded hours of grueling interrogations, could have set off controversies about the legality of the interrogations and generate a backlash in the Middle East.
