More on that last point, building on something Soufan just said. The top CIA interrogator at the Abu Zubaydah interrogation was “100 percent in sync with the FBI view” about how to interrogate the al-Qaeda detainee without torturing him “because he’s a professional interrogator.” The head of the CIA team interrogating Abu Zubaydah, he further asserts, “left before I did.” Mitchell, the former SERE psychologist who advocated — successfully — novel and very physical methods to interrogate Abu Zubaydah evidently stood entirely alone.