WASHINGTON -- A former FBI special agent who interrogated senior al-Qaida captives told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that harsh interrogation techniques are "ineffective, slow and unreliable," and disputed claims by former Vice President Dick Cheney and others that they helped uncover major terrorist plots. Ali Soufan, a veteran FBI investigator, said that CIA officials and others responsible for the extreme measures inflated the program's successes and downplayed the consequences of physical abuse. "The situation was, and remains, too risky to allow someone to experiment with...
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