14 Dec 2014 7:17 pm
I told you ask Ali Soufan. He had Zubaydah talking until the CIA contractors showed up and put him in isolation for 47 days.RichClem » 14 Dec 2014 7:13 pm » wrote: Name one that will induce a dedicated, fanatic terrorist to cooperate in a short period of time.
Rotsa ruck.
And riddle me this Pumpkin, if we needed to get info from these guys quickly, (you know that whole ticking time-bomb that you Cons love to talk about) why waste 47 days before you even attempt to interrogate him?
I interrogated the top terrorist in US custody. Then the CIA came to town. By Ali Soufan
In the middle of my interrogation of the high-ranking terrorist Abu Zubaydah at a black-site prison 12 years ago, my intelligence work wasn’t just cut short for so-called enhanced interrogation techniques to begin.
After I left the black site, those who took over left, too – for 47 days. For personal time and to “confer with headquarters”.
For nearly the entire summer of 2002, Abu Zubaydah was kept in isolation. That was valuable lost time, and that doesn’t square with claims about the “ticking bomb scenarios” that were the basis for America’s enhanced interrogation program, or with the commitment to getting life-saving, actionable intelligence from valuable detainees.
The techniques were justified by those who said Zubaydah “stopped all cooperation” around the time my fellow FBI agent and I left.
If Zubaydah was in isolation the whole time, that’s not really a surprise.