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Tapped's Sam Rosenfeld points to my friend Jason Vest's important July Prospect feature story on the fight between the FBI and the CIA over who would interrogate Al-Libi, and the crappy information the CIA got when it won because it sent al-Libi to Cairo to be tortured. The information gotten from Libi as the result of the torture the CIA facilitated has now been identified as total fabrications. What's the important point that hardened field agents told Vest from literally decades of experience interrogating suspects? Torture doesn't work. It produces bad information. Someone get Cloonan to testify for Pat Roberts' intelligence committee. Since the vice president is so adamant that the White House deserves the right to order suspects interrogated using whatever methods it wishes, maybe he should go observe some Cairo interrogations himself for kicks.
Update: Reader RS sends word that the former FBI interrogator, Jack Cloonan, was recently a guest on the superb public radio show out of Boston, called Open Source Radio. Here's the link to the show that featured Cloonan.
Posted by Laura at November 7, 2005 06:45 PM