Reply #12: And the 9-11 Commission's report was based on [View All]

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stories tortured out of "al Queda" detainees:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/189251

The 9/11 Commission and Torture
The bipartisan panel that investigated the terrorist attacks was widely praised. But did its final report rely on suspect information?

By Philip Shenon | NEWSWEEK

Published Mar 14, 2009

From the magazine issue dated Mar 23, 2009

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Information from CIA interrogations of two of the three—KSM and Abu Zubaydah—is cited throughout two key chapters of the panel's report focusing on the planning and execution of the attacks and on the history of Al Qaeda.

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Commission members note that they repeatedly pressed the Bush White House and CIA for direct access to the detainees, but the administration refused. So the commission forwarded questions to the CIA, whose interrogators posed them on the panel's behalf.

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Former senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, a Democrat on the commission, told me last year he had long feared that the investigation depended too heavily on the accounts of Al Qaeda detainees who were physically coerced into talking. While he thought the commission's larger narrative about the September 11 attacks held up, "there's reason now to suspect that we may have gotten some of the details wrong" about the 9/11 plot and about Al Qaeda.

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