Then it was just CIA-sanctioned enhanced interrogation and I was ready to talk, I'd tell them whatever they wanted to please make it stop.
So Quinn goes back to the scene of the crime and confesses to two murders he didn't commit – not just the CIA-style quick, silent shot to the head, but the brutal, repeated stabbing of a woman with a bottle.
Just as the CIA contributed to the downward slide to the Cuban Missile Crisis, and just as many of JFK's security chiefs urged war rather than negotiation during that crisis, so too today's Middle East terrorism, wars, and refugee crises have been stoked by misguided CIA-led interventions.
After the Bali bombings in 2002, which killed 202 tourists and Indonesian citizens, Mr Basyir claimed that the American CIA was behind it—just as the CIA and Israel's Mossad took down the World Trade Centre in New York the year before.
NO PUBLIC BACKLASH AGAINST CIA TORTURE - Peter Woolley and John Schiemann: "Just before the U.S. Senate released its report at the end of 2014 on the CIA's use of "harsh interrogation" tactics against prisoners, the question was whether or not the report would provoke a public backlash against torture.
Indeed he appears to have been advised by no fewer than four ex-CIA chiefs to do just this.
But it's a "CIA operation," so it's classified.
Chile has just marked the 40th anniversary of the CIA-backed coup with sombre memorials to the 3,000 victims who were killed or "disappeared" in its aftermath.
It prompted a CIA-engineered "anti-communist" coup just two years later, heralding Guatemala's long descent into darkness under murderous military regimes.
In the meantime, Rushdie seemed content to endorse the Anglo-American assault on Afghanistan, and, claiming that another "war of liberation might just be one worth fighting", hailed the CIA-sponsored conman Ahmad Chalabi as "the most likely first leader of a democratised Iraq".
KKR is, however, just where Petraeus's post-military, post-CIA résumé begins.
