According to Jossy Mansur, managing editor of Aruba's Diario newspaper, investigators were following up on statements made during early suspect interrogations regarding calls made and emails sent between the Kalpoe brothers and Joran van der Sloot.
But Judge Moreno said the suspects' interrogation and testimony from a protected witness revealed a picture of a structured group of spiritual leaders, explosives experts and the potential suicide bombers.
As a C.I.A. official, Brennan publicly defended some of Bush's most controversial counterterrorism policies, including the "rendition" of terror suspects for interrogation in foreign countries.
Some of the sharpest disputes between the agencies have focused on the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, one of two terrorism suspects whose interrogations were shown on the destroyed tapes.
The law will require detectives to audio- or videotape homicide suspects during interrogations that occur while the suspects are in custody.
The facility known as Camp Delta was opened in January 2002 to hold battlefield detainees (a.k.a. terror suspects) during interrogations, after which they would either be cleared or imprisoned indefinitely.
In one case, a 16-year-old named Bobby Johnson, with an IQ of 69, falsely confessed after detectives told him they had evidence that linked him to a murder – a legal tactic of lying to a suspect during interrogation.
Even the Miranda warnings, which are supposed to be read to a suspect beore interrogation, seem to suggest that there is "something inherently unstable and unreliable about the speech-act of confession," Mr. Brooks writes.
The cooperation was first disclosed during a Congressional hearing on Tuesday, as the suspect's interrogation became the subject of an intense political debate over whether he initially stopped providing information after he was read his Miranda rights and received a lawyer.
