Levin's report cites Mitchell and Jessen by name, and states that Jessen had been contracted by the Department of Defense to come up with a set of interrogation techniques for US military interrogators in late 2001 before he went on to work for the CIA.
But General Hayden bristled when asked about Congressional attempts to mandate that C.I.A. interrogators be required to use the more limited set of interrogation methods contained in the Army Field Manual, which is used by military interrogators.
The CIA hired Mitchell and Jessen as contractors in 2002 to train interrogators and to develop an "alternative" set of interrogation methods for Abu Zubaydah, the CIA's first high-value detainee who was captured in Faisalabad, Pakistan in March 2002.
In the future, the report urged, all government agencies operating in Iraq should have to follow a uniform set of interrogation practices.
The Schlesinger panel implicitly blamed Mr. Rumsfeld for contributing to a confusing set of interrogation polices, but its members said he should not resign.
"Clash Foreseen Between C.I.A. and Pentagon" (front page, May 10) refers to the Pentagon's proposal to have a separate set of interrogation techniques, "presumably more coercive," for the terrorism suspects held at Guantánamo Bay.
"Requiring the CIA and other US agencies to abide by one uniform set of interrogation rules will help prevent torture," said Laura Pitter, senior national security counsel at Human Rights Watch.
At Guantanamo, a similar set of interrogation techniques to which detainees were subjected — such as sleep deprivation, prolonged stress positions, and isolation — were later widely deemed to be torture.
A comprehensive set of interrogation sites will inevitably contain probes which will be affected by SNPs, INDELs, multiple location hybridization and repeat sequences.
After re-annotation of probe sets for interrogation of genomic DNA, WPP, a data analysis algorithm originally developed for expression analysis, is utilized for calculation of DNA copy number variation.
