“As for [9/11 mastermind] K.S.M. [Khalid Sheikh Mohammed] himself, who (as Jane Mayer writes [in her book The Dark Side]) was waterboarded, reportedly hung for hours on end from his wrists, beaten, and subjected to other agonies for weeks, [President] Bush said he provided ‘many details of other plots to kill innocent Americans.’ K.S.M. was certainly knowledgeable. It would be surprising if he gave up nothing of value. But according to a former senior C.I.A. official, who read all the interrogation reports on K.S.M., ’90 percent of it was total fucking bullshit.’ A former Pentagon analyst adds: ‘K.S.M. produced no actionable intelligence. He was trying to tell us how stupid we were.’ ”
– David Rose, “Tortured Reasoning,” Vanity Fair, Dec. 16, 2008