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Marc Ambinder - Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. More

Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal. He previously served as the politics editor, and is now a contributing editor, for The Atlantic, where he curated the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributed to the magazine. He was also a chief political consultant to CBS News. Earlier, at NJ's Hotline, Ambinder was the founding editor of "Hotline On Call," a pathbreaking political news blog. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political Unit and was one of the founders of ABC's "The Note." Born in New York City, raised in Central Florida, Ambinder is a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.

Redacted CIA Documents Of The Day: Interrogation Transcripts

By Marc Ambinder
Jun 15 2009, 5:32 PM ET Comment

Thanks to the ACLU, the CIA today released heavily redacted memorandums describing parts of the actual interrogations of Abu Zubaydah, KSM. Majid Khan, and Al-Nashiri. In the CIA's parlance, they are the verbatim transcripts of the combat status review tribunals (CSRTs) for these prisoners.  The documents have been released before, but there are a few de-redacted paragraphs that deal with allegations of torture:

Certain fragments, like this one, from Abu Zubaydah: "They say "this in your diary," They say "see you want to make operation against America." I say no, the idea is different. They say no, torturing, torturing, I say, "okay, I do, I was decide to make operation."  

KSM:  "l just make up stories, just location VBL. Where is he? I don't know. Then he torture me. Then I said yes, he is in this area or this is al Qaida which I don't him. I said no, they torture me.
Does he know you? I say don't him but how come he know you. I told him I'm..."

The prisoners' description of their interrogations are entirely blacked out.



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