These officials claim that while there is some concern within the Justice Department about the details of Zubaydah's interrogations prior to August 2002 being revealed and leading to renewed calls for an investigation, there is greater unease with the fact that if the case moved forward it would expose the massive intelligence failure that took place in the last months of the Clinton administration and during George W. Bush's first term that resulted in Zubaydah at one point being named the No. 3 official in al-Qaeda and one of the planners of the 9/11 attacks.
The Justice Department, in its factual return, has since abandoned every major claim that the Bush administration made about Zubaydah being a high-level al-Qaeda official and no longer believes or contends that he was ever connected to the terrorist organization or was involved in the planning of any terrorist plots, according to Mickum.
Separately, the Senate Intelligence Committee is
close to completing a yearlong review of the Bush administration's
so-called "enhanced interrogation" program and may soon issue a report
that contains the most detailed information to date about Zubaydah,
which intelligence sources interviewed over the past two weeks said will
"embarrass" Bush administration officials who continue to maintain that
he was an important figure in al-Qaeda, and will debunk assertions from
the likes of Dick Cheney that his torture produced actionable
intelligence.
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