torture, michlin jeffs, the two contract psychologists have written about him. they have given interviews about him. one of them wrote a memoir in they defended the torture. three former cia directors wrote a rebuttal to the senate torture report defending the torture. everybody knows that abu zubaydah was tortured. it s not a state secret. but this is what the cia does with some regulate. they re go into court and just say national security, and oftentimes that s enough to get a case dismissed. but you believe abu zubaydah should be released? i actually do, as crazy as that might sound. he has been incarcerated, not just incarcerated, but tortured mercilessly at guantanamo and at a series of secret prisons for almost 19 i m sorry, almost 20 years now. we captured him on the night of march 22nd, 2002. so here we are 20 years later, and the man has never been charged with a crime.
that his torture and detention at a black site in poland is a state secret, even though the facts about his treatment and cia torture are now widely known, partly thanks to you. do you buy that argument? and is it strange for you, the man who caught him, to now be advocating for his release from guantanamo where he has been held without charge since 2006? it is funny the twists and turns that life takes, isn t it? you know, so much has been written about abu zubaydah, not just by journalists, but by the people who were involved in his torture, michlin and jesson, the two contract psychologists have written about him. one of them wrote a memoir and they defended torture. three former cia directors wrote a rebuttal to the senate torture report defending the torture. everybody knows that abu zubaydah was tortured. it s not a state secret. but this is what the cia does with some regulate.
attacks, the cia engaged two contract psychologists who had never conducted interrogations themselves or ever operated detention facilities. as the cia captured or received custody of detainees through 2002, it maintained separate lines of management at headquarters for different detention facilities. no individual or office was in charge of the detention and interrogation program until january of 2003 by which point more than one-third of cia detainees identified in our review had been detained and interrogated. one example was the poorly managed detention facility referred to, in our report, by