The small band of American military, intelligence and law enforcement officials who run interrogations -- in Afghanistan, Guantánamo, and other, undisclosed locations around the world -- are predictably tight-lipped, as much about what they do and how they do it as about what they have learned.
Mitchell and Jessen's company was paid $81 million for helping design and run interrogations, using SERE techniques.
Taken to an American-run interrogation centre, we saw young men blindfolded and tied, while others were hanging from the ceiling.
Like Mr. Zubaydah, the officials said, Mr. Nashiri has been transferred to an American-run interrogation center at a secret location overseas.
She zestfully accused Wickremesinghe of watching as men were tortured at a secret state-run interrogation facility in the late 1980's.
The American officials said that Mr. Nashiri was captured earlier this month at an airport in a foreign country, and that he had been surprisingly cooperative in his initial questioning at an American-run interrogation center elsewhere overseas.
Colonel Pappas and another officer said Colonel Jordan was sent to the prison to run the interrogation center; Colonel Jordan said he was supposed to be a "liaison" between the center and another unit at the prison.
While Colonel Jordan was considered hard-working and brave -- he had survived a mortar attack that killed two other soldiers at the prison in September -- he was a "poor choice" to run the interrogation center, the investigation found.
The report, to be made public Tuesday by the Open Society Justice Initiative, a rights advocacy group, is the most detailed external account of other countries' assistance to the United States, including things like permitting the C.I.A. to run secret interrogation prisons on their soil and allowing the agency to use their airports for refueling while moving prisoners around the world.
Two psychologists, contracted by the C.I.A. to develop and run the interrogation program, reported that Abu Zubaydah was "ready to talk" during the first exposure, but "we chose to expose him over and over until we had a high degree of confidence he wouldn't hold back".
I had one detainee in Iraq, a previous Al Qaida fighter, who provided me with all the information he knew willingly without me having to run an interrogation approach.
