Cheney and Rumsfeld knew that there was a link between al-Qaida and Saddam and the failure of traditional interrogations to find it was justification for torture.
At his news conference, General Myers said that military investigators at Guantánamo were searching their interrogation logs to find the case cited in the Newsweek article.
All this has been justified by President Bush as necessary for the effective interrogation of prisoners, to find out dangerous terrorist plans.
Speaking to the Guardian by telephone, Liashko said he conducted the interrogation because he wanted to find out what the motivations and ideas of Kakizdyanov were.
Now her interrogation is very crucial to find how the poison got mixed with the food," Abhijit Sinha, the chief civil servant of the Saran district, said by phone Sunday.
The timing is suspicious, so Thomas Kell, recently forced out of the service following a dubious interrogation in Kabul, is enlisted to find her.
While other forms of intelligence-gathering have benefited from research and technological advances — intelligence officers can intercept telephone and Internet communications or use satellite images to find people — interrogation has suffered from a lack of innovation.
Tourism Web sites abound with stories of visitors who innocently snap photos of forbidden sites, only to find themselves under interrogation in the local police station.
The spokesperson told the Guardian: "Prison staff take the use of any illicit substances in prison extremely seriously and use a range of robust measures to find them, including interrogation, intelligence, searches, specially trained dogs and random drug tests.
Maya may cringe while witnessing violent interrogations and torture, but her determination to find and punish terrorists never falters.
