Author: Peter Finn
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Evidence that waterboarding worked? One detainee’s story
WASHINGTON — After enduring the CIA’s harshest interrogation methods and spending more than a year in the agency’s secret prisons, Khalid Sheik Mohammed stood before U.S. intelligence officers in a makeshift lecture hall, leading what they called “terrorist tutorials.”In 2005 and 2006, the bearded, pudgy man who calls himself the mastermind of the Sept. 11,…
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Interviews offer nuanced look at roles of CIA contractors in interrogations
In April 2002, as the terrorism suspect known as Abu Zubaida lay in a Bangkok hospital bed, top U.S. counterterrorism officials gathered at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., for a series of meetings on an urgent problem: how to get him to talk.Put him in a cell filled with cadavers, was one suggestion, according to…