The Beginning of "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques"
Clip: Season 2011 Episode 14 | 6m 33s
How FBI Agent Ali Soufan got an Al Qaeda operative to talk -- until the CIA stepped in.
Al Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah was captured in Pakistan in March 2002. FBI Agent Ali Soufan tells FRONTLINE he was able to convince Zubaydah to give up significant details about Al Qaeda plots. But, he says, cooperation dried up once the CIA stepped in with new "enhanced interrogation techniques."
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The Beginning of "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques"
Clip: Season 2011 Episode 14 | 6m 33s
Al Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah was captured in Pakistan in March 2002. FBI Agent Ali Soufan tells FRONTLINE he was able to convince Zubaydah to give up significant details about Al Qaeda plots. But, he says, cooperation dried up once the CIA stepped in with new "enhanced interrogation techniques."
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