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memorandum — only occurred in August 2002, after “I objected to the enhanced techniques” and was subsequently withdrawn from the interrogation by senior FBI management.
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An FBI agent named “Ali” comes out and writes a NYT op-ed against “torture.” Why do I not trust this guy?
Yeah, I wonder whose side this guy is on. Aren’t the followers of Islam instructed to lie to anyone of another faith in order to bring about their submission? This is a bad joke, and the jokers in Congress have no clue what they are doing.
Interesting- Ali Soufan was one of the FBI agents sent to investigate the USS Cole. We know how well that investigation went, don’t we? Evidently our political elite never wanted to deal with that, maybe because it was sponsored by a state they would rather ease relations with than make war on?
The other guy Soufan is on and around which there is considerable leftwing monokeybusiness is Zubaydah.
Zubaydah was all linked up with hezbollah...
The Zubaydah case is the same case over which CIA man Kiriakou was charged for leaking the names of CIA interrogators to a NY Times reporter who turned around and gave the information to Zubaydah’s defense attorneys. These treasonous bastards in turn hired investigators to use that information to get addresses and photographs of CIA employees and they used these photos to identify the interrogators by showing them to detainees in Gitmo. The photos of CIA employees ended up in the posession of the detainees. [I wonder if that Yee guy, the Chaplain, had acquired any of them because he was carrying material on the prison and the detainees and was going to take it to Syria, as I recall, when caught.]
Kiriakou’s wife was then asked to resign her job- which was an analyst at the CIA on guess which country? Iran.