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In the first public testimony of anyone directly involved, former bureau agent Ali Soufan is expected to directly contradict assertions by CIA officials and former Vice President Cheney that the "enhanced interrogation techniques" were successful in prying information out of al Qaeda detainees.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=7560666


From Information Clearing House

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Former FBI Agent Testifies to CIA Contractor Push for Harsh Interrogation

Spencer Ackerman, The Washington Independent: "Ali Soufan, the former FBI agent who helped interrogate detained al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah, told lawmakers Wednesday that he wasn't the only interrogator who opposed torturing Abu Zubaydah at a CIA-operated facility in the spring of 2002. According to Soufan, all the members of the CIA's interrogation team stood against a single CIA 'contractor' who advocated such techniques as placing the detainee in a 'confinement box.'"

http://www.truthout.org/051409B?n



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