Says who? What makes this muzzie the end all and be all in effective interrogation techniques? But I guess it must be so, after all it's in the New York Times...right?
One of the worst consequences of the use of these harsh techniques was that it reintroduced the so-called Chinese wall between the C.I.A. and F.B.I., similar to the communications obstacles that prevented us from working together to stop the 9/11 attacks.