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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.
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".
The report provides new details about how Mr. Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, another SERE trainer who would later go into business with Mr. Mitchell, gained entree to the C.I.A.'s counterterrorism center, which hired them to create and run the interrogation program.
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And the current head of the Counterterrorist Center — the officer, who is undercover, cannot be identified — ran the interrogation program for part of Bush's second term.
One of the holdovers is Jonathan Fredman, who was formerly the chief counsel to the division that ran the interrogation program; he is now on temporary assignment with the director of National Intelligence.
The Senate committee reserved special condemnation for those who ran the interrogation program and the lack of proper oversight.
Mr. Rumsfeld sparred with Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, who questioned the management and control at Abu Ghraib prison, in particular whether intelligence officers who ran the interrogations were put in charge of the military police.
Other sources have said that psychologists helped design and run the C.I.A. interrogation program, that physicians' assistants and former military paramedics worked regularly in it, and that physicians were involved at times.
The Justice Department invoked executive powers in a lawsuit filed by former detainees against two psychologists who helped run the agency's interrogation program.
Mr Soufan was part of an FBI team which ran the initial interrogation of an al-Qaeda "facilitator", Abu Zubaydah.
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