A lot of people want to talk to John Kiriakou. After the leader of the team that interrogated senior al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah in 2002 — one of the detainees whose interrogation was secretly recorded — went public, a lot of confusion remained. Did Abu Zubaydah really break after 35 seconds of waterboarding, as Kiriakou said? Or, as the FBI’s Dan Coleman and others have said, did Abu Zubaydah’s interrogation yield the best information through non-coercive techniques? Very few people are sure of the answer. Many want to ask Kiriakou more questions.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=179120