More on Soufan & CIA vs. James Mitchell
More on [that last point](Aaron Wiener /42782/ali-soufan-and-the-cia-vs-james-mitchell), 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.
