Although President Bush noted that the Department of Justice had declared the CIA’s treatment of al Qaeda operations chief Abu Zubayda as legal, “FBI agents, who were the first to question Zubayda [on March 31, 2002] at the black site, before the CIA interrogation team arrived…thought that what they glimpsed of the CIA’s treatment of him was disgraceful, disastrously counterproductive, and criminal.”
– Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, Page 155