Ethics

Zubaydah's Interrogator Speaks Out

By Ed Brayton

Defenders of torture continue to claim that abusing Khalid Sheikh Mohhamed and Ali Zubaydah worked, that it got useful intelligence that saved lives. Today, one of the FBI interrogators who handled Zubaydah dumps cold water all over those claims in an op-ed piece in the New York Times. He says in no uncertain terms that the useful intelligence they gained from Zubaydah was gained early in the process, while they were still using traditional methods of interrogation and that the use of torture resulted in lots of false information that sent authorities on wild goose chases:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on April 28, 2009 (boomark / email).