re: #262 darthstar

Another guy who could be talking without being tortured. Oh, the horror! What will Cheney say now?

The officials said that Pakistan was leading the interrogation of Mullah Baradar, but that Americans were also involved. The conditions of the questioning are unclear. In its first week in office, the Obama administration banned harsh interrogations like waterboarding by Americans, but the Pakistanis have long been known to subject prisoners to brutal questioning.

In other words - no one knows the conditions or type of questioning but the ISI is the lead interrogator and the CIA appears to have been merely present. That means that harsh interrogation tactics could have been used if the ISI was conducting the interrogations and not the CIA. They could be playing good cop/bad cop (or bad cop/worse cop).

Either way, the article also makes it clear that Pakistan could have picked this guy up long ago but chose not to because they didn’t think the Taliban were a threat to them.