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"the Iraqi intel officer who met with Atta, Al-Ani has been in CIA custody for some time and we have done a terrible job of interrogating him"

If we are not regularly interrogating and re-interrogating every significant "high level" prisoner from Saddam's regime and Al Qaeda, etc. then someone is displaying GROTESQUE incompetence. It is not enough to give some cursory early interrogation and then let these guys rot..... they need to be intensively examined over and over and over again, by different intel officers asking different questions, following up new info, etc. etc. Their cover stories may begin to crack once they are caught giving conflicting and/or obviously fabricated info over a period of months and years. If we are not going over these guys with many microscopes then someone is falling down badly on the job.....

I doubt that we are. In fact, I doubt that we even did DNA tests on the sheikh and all his purported Baluch relatives..