Newsweek story has interview with FBI agent who tried to stop the torture of Abu Zubaydah and says the techniques did not bring reliable results.

The arguments at the CIA safe house were loud and intense in the spring of 2002. Inside, a high-value terror suspect, Abu Zubaydah, was handcuffed to a gurney. He had been wounded during his capture in Pakistan and still had bullet fragments in his stomach, leg and groin. Agency operatives were aiming to crack him with rough and unorthodox interrogation tactics—including stripping him nude, turning down the temperature and bombarding him with loud music. But one impassioned young FBI agent wanted nothing to do with it. He tried to stop them.

The agent, Ali Soufan, was known as one of the bureau's top experts on Al Qaeda. He also had a reputation as a shrewd interrogator who could work fluently in both English and Arabic. Soufan yelled at one CIA contractor and told him that what he was doing was wrong, ineffective and an affront to American values. At one point, Soufan discovered a dark wooden "confinement box" that the contractor had built for Abu Zubaydah. It looked, Soufan recalls, "like a coffin." The mercurial agent erupted in anger, got on a secure phone line and called Pasquale D'Amuro, then the FBI assistant director for counterterrorism. "I swear to God," he shouted, "I'm going to arrest these guys!"

"I've kept my mouth shut about all this for seven years," Soufan says. But now, with the declassification of Justice memos and the public assertions by Cheney and others that "enhanced" techniques worked, Soufan feels compelled to speak out. "I was in the middle of this, and it's not true that these [aggressive] techniques were effective," he says. "We were able to get the information about Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a couple of days. We didn't have to do any of this [torture]. We could have done this the right way."

Well this is very interesting and seems to pit the two agencies, the FBI and CIA, against each other.

My money is on the FBI in this case and I would further bet that the CIA starts leaking like a sieve once the heat gets turned up and then we will all learn that the torture did NOT get us any useful information.

And when that happens they can call Dick "just torture them all" Cheney up in front of a Congressional investigative committee, place his giant ass under oath, and ask him to explain when he decided to trade America's reputation away for the chance to play Jack Bauer for real.

I applaud Mr. Soufan, and hope there are dozens more just like him just itching to tell America the truth about what went on these last eight terrible years.