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FBI interrogator confirms torture ineffectiveness

April 24th, 2009 Andrew Villeneuve Unscheduled Programming

Ali Soufan, an FBI agent who took part in the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, writes in an Op-Ed to the New York Times about the effectiveness of ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ -that is, they weren’t.

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