C.I.A. Demands Cuts in Book About 9/11 and Terror Fight

[babsbunny]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/26/us/26agent.html?_r=1

By SCOTT SHANE
Published: August 25, 2011

WASHINGTON — In what amounts to a fight over who gets to write the history of the Sept. 11 attacks and their aftermath, the Central Intelligence Agency is demanding extensive cuts from the memoir of a former F.B.I. agent who spent years near the center of the battle against Al Qaeda.

The agent, Ali H. Soufan, argues in the book that the C.I.A. missed a chance to derail the 2001 plot by withholding from the F.B.I. information about two future 9/11 hijackers living in San Diego, according to several people who have read the manuscript. And he gives a detailed, firsthand account of the C.I.A.’s move toward brutal treatment in its interrogations, saying the harsh methods used on the agency’s first important captive, Abu Zubaydah, were unnecessary and counterproductive.

[Supersedeas]

1. as more of the truth about 9/11 and torture is revealed -- we will increasingly see pushback from

our government and judicial system.

[Robb]

2. There's a good article in this month's Vanity Fair. (nt)