C.I.A. Violently Cut Off 9/11 Suspect When He Tried to Talk About Attacks

We walled him, Dr. Mitchell said...because they feared he was talking about 9/11 to distract them from another looming crime.

That month, interrogators waterboarded Mr. Mohammed 183 times at a secret overseas C.I.A. prison in the mistaken belief, Dr. Mitchell said, that a nuclear attack in the United States was imminent.

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