inside the C.I.A.’s secret interrogation program

clipped from www.newyorker.com The Black Sites A rare look inside the C.I.A.’s secret interrogation program. by Jane Mayer August 13, 2007 In the war on terror, one historian says, the C.I.A. “didn’t just bring back the old psychological techniques—they perfected them.” Keywords Mohammed, Khalid Sheikh; Secret Interrogations; Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.); Al Qaeda; Torture; Pearl, Mariane; Pearl, Daniel In March, Mariane Pearl, the widow of the murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, received a phone call from Alberto Gonzales, the Attorney General. At the time, Gonzales’s role in the controversial dismissal of eight United States Attorneys had just been exposed, and the story was becoming a scandal in Washington. Gonzales informed Pearl that the Justice Department was about to announce some good news: