This may turn into a hot hearing, ping.
http://washingtonindependent.com/42481/fbi-agents-account-of-interrogations-conflicts-with-report
As former FBI agent Ali Soufan prepares to testify publicly for the first time about the FBI’s role in the torture policies of the Bush administration, some aspects of his testimony are already clear. Torture doesn’t work, Soufan wrote in a high-profile New York Times op-ed in late April, and he knows because he, as part of the team interrogating al-Qaeda detainee Abu Zubaydah “from March to June 2002,” got reliable information out of him “before the harsh techniques were introduced later in August.” Alongside accounts of FBI agents resisting torture at Guantanamo Bay and with another al-Qaeda detainee named Ibn Shaikh al-Libi, Soufan’s account has gone a long way toward portraying the FBI as a lonely institutional outpost of opposition to harsh interrogations...
...Soufan’s account does not entirely match up with the inspector general’s, both in terms of the timeline he gave, and his participation in a subsequent interrogation that went beyond traditional FBI interrogation techniques. He wrote in his op-ed that “the harsh techniques” used on Abu Zubaydah — such as waterboarding, to which Abu Zubaydah was subjected 83 times, according to a recently-declassified 2005 Justice Department memorandum — only occurred in August 2002, after “I objected to the enhanced techniques” and was subsequently withdrawn from the interrogation by senior FBI management.
~~snip~~
Let me know when Jack Bauer comes up to testify.
I’ve got it on. They are starting with Sheldon Whitehouse who is one of the most despicable human beings on the planet.
He starts off calling Bush a liar.
Just the thought of it and potential release of ‘torture’ pictures .. each one a virtual nuclear bomb for recruitment to our enemies .. churns and roils my insides to the maxx.
Dear Lord, place Your protective arms and mercy around
our brave military.