41 Michael Scheuer, “A Fine Rendition,” New York Times, March 11, 2005.
42 John Goetz and Britta Sandberg, “New Evidence of Torture Prison in Poland,” Der Spiegel , April 27, 2009; Mark Mazzetti, “Portrait of 9/11 ‘Jackal’ Emerges As He Awaits Stage in New York,” New York Times, November 15, 2009.
43 Anthony Lake, “Joint Intelligence Committee Testimony, Testimony of Anthony Lake,” September 19, 2002.
44 Michael Hayden, “A Conversation with Michael Hayden: Transcript,” Council on Foreign Relations, September 7, 2007.
50 “Khalid Shaykh Muhammad: Preeminent Source on Al-Qa’ida.”
51 “Special Review: Counterterrorism Detention and Interrogation Activities (September 2001–October 2003),” Central Intelligence Agency Inspector General, May 7, 2004, 87.
52 “Polish Investigation into CIA Crimes: Questions over Secrecy Remain,” Amnesty.org, June 26, 2009.
53 Jane Mayer, “The Black Sites,” New Yorker, August 13, 2007.
59 Glenn Fine, Testimony of Glenn A. Fine, Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice, Before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, June 10, 2008, www.justice.gov/oig/testimony/t0806a/index.htm .
61 Gary Coh, “Torture Was Taught by CIA; Declassified Manual Details the Methods Used in Honduras; Agency Denials Refuted,” Baltimore Sun , January 27, 1997. “The CIA also declassified a Vietnam-era training manual called ‘KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation—July 1963,’ which also taught torture and is believed by intelligence sources to have been a basis for the 1983 manual.... The 1983 manual was altered between 1984 and early 1985 to discourage torture after a furor was raised in Congress and the press about CIA training techniques being used in Central America.”
67 Memorandum for Alberto R. Gonzalez, Counsel to the President, from Jay S. Bybee, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, Re: Standards of Conduct for Interrogation under 18 U.S.C. §§ 2340–2340A ,” August 1, 2002.
68 Memorandum for John A. Rizzo, Senior Deputy General Counsel, Central Intelligence Agency, from Steven G. Bradbury, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, Re: Application of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2340–2340A to Certain Techniques That May Be Used in the Interrogation of a High Value al-Qaeda Detainee, May 10, 2005.
83 American Bar Association Task Force on Terrorism and the Law: Report and Recommendations on Military Commissions (2002).
84 Victor Hansen, “The Usefulness of a Negative Example: What We Can Learn About Evidence Rules from the Government’s Most Recent Efforts to Construct a Military Commissions Process,” 35 Wm. Mitchell L. Rev . 1480, 1485 (2009).
95 Jim Comey and Jack Goldsmith, “Holder’s Decisions on Mohammed Trial Defended,” Washington Post, November 20, 2009.
96 “Terror Trial Switch? NYC: Not in My Backyard,” Good Morning America , January 29, 2010; Joseph Lieberman et al., Letter to the Honorable Eric H. Holder Jr., Attorney General. Washington DC, January 26, 2010; Kasie Hunt, “Two Senate Democrats Want KSM Trial Out of NYC,” Politico , January 26, 2010.
98 Anthony M. DeStefano, “Kelly: New York 9/11 Trial ‘Politically Impossible,’” Newsday, June 4, 2010; Suzanne Malveaux, “White House Considers Military Trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,” CNN, March 5, 2010.
100 Warren Richey, “Obama Endorses Military Commissions for Guantanamo Detainees,” Christian Science Monitor , October 29, 2009.
101 “President Obama Signs Military Commissions Changes into Law,” ACLU, October 28, 2009.
CHAPTER 5: INTERROGATIONS, INTELLIGENCE, AND WAR
1 NEFA Foundation, Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi, October 2009, 4; Jane Mayer, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals (New York: Doubleday, 2008), 103; Edward Cody, “Pakistan Sends Ex-Taliban Envoy Back to Afghanistan,” Washington Post, January 5, 2002.
2 The three custody exchanges would be US to Egypt, Egypt to US, and US to Libya.
5 Camille al-Tawil, “US Reportedly Hands Over to Libya Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi,” Al-Hayat, May 3, 2006; Mayer, Dark Side, 134.
6 Eric Schmitt and Erik Eckholm, “A Nation Challenged: The Hunted; US Takes Custody of a Qaeda Trainer Seized by Pakistan,” New York Times, January 6, 2002; Bill Hemmer, “Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi Is in US Custody,” CNN, January 5, 2002.
7 “Organizations with Assets Frozen by Bush’s Order,” Washington Post, September 24, 2001, http://old.911digitalarchive.org/crr/documents/1123.pdf . The list also included Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Muhammad Atif, Abu Zubaydah, Sayf al-Adl, Abu Hafs, Shaykh Saiid, Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, Thirwat Salah Shihata, Tariq Anwar Al-Sayyid Ahmad, and Muhammad Salah.
8 “The Truth About Torture,” Newsweek, November 13, 2005.
9 Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Postwar Findings About Iraq’s WMD Programs and Links to Terrorism and How They Compare with Prewar Assessments, September 8, 2006, 76–77, www.fas.org/irp/congress/2006_rpt/srpt109–331.pdf .
13 Omar Nasiri, Inside the Jihad: My Life with Al-Qaeda (New York: Basic Books, 2006), 178.
14 The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), an al-Qaeda affiliate, was founded in the 1990s by Libyans who had fought against the Soviets in Afghanistan and were now waging jihad against Muammar Qadhafi’s regime and seeking to establish an Islamic state in Libya. Nic Robertson and Paul Cruickshank, “Jihadist Death Threatened Libyan Peace Deal,” CNN, November 28, 2009.
15 Mayer, Dark Side , 104; Nasiri, Inside the Jihad , 120.
16 “Rendition to Torture: The Case of Maher Arar,” Joint Hearing Before the Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties of the House Judiciary Committee, 110th Congress, 1st sess., Serial 110–118/110–52, October 18, 2007, 13; Jack Cloonan, discussion with author, April 6, 2009.
17 Bobby Ghosh, “Terror Interrogations: Can the CIA and FBI Work Together?” Time , July 26, 2009.
19 Kenneth Levit, “The CIA and the Torture Controversy: Interrogation Authorities and Practices in the War on Terror,” Journal of National Security Policy and Law 1, no. 341 (2005): 350.
20 Jack Cloonan, discussion with author, April 6, 2009.