The interrogations continued, even after on-site interrogators concluded that it was highly unlikely he knew such information.
A recent study by the U.S. National Defense Intelligence College indicated that there was no scientific basis to conclude that "enhanced interrogation" improved the quality of intelligence gleaned from captured terrorist suspects.
Last December, the Senate Intelligence Committee released its long-awaited report on the efficacy of the CIA's detention and interrogation program and concluded that the program and the interrogation techniques were devised and managed by two CIA contract psychologists.
But she was able to hear him, she said, and "from sounds emanating from the interrogation room," she concluded that he was being beaten.
WASHINGTON — An internal Justice Department inquiry has concluded that Bush administration lawyers committed serious lapses of judgment in writing secret memorandums authorizing brutal interrogations but that they should not be prosecuted, according to government officials briefed on its findings.
In a statement Tuesday night, the Pentagon said that more than a dozen prior investigations had concluded that the interrogations were lawful.
The report concluded that the interrogations produced no useful information for preventing terrorist attacks.While Mr Obama says the CIA's use of torture will not be repeated, other American officials have been more equivocal.
He said a new forensic study concluded that "all the interrogations to which Gen Bachelet was submitted damaged his heart and was the likely cause of death".
The committee's six-year-long review of thousands of CIA documents concluded that the harsh interrogations were ineffective and that the information learned, in most cases, could have been found using other methods.
Major Matthew Alexander, who personally conducted 300 interrogations of prisoners in Iraq, has concluded that torture does not work, particularly in the "ticking time bomb" scenario so often quoted by those who support torture.
