C.I.A. Demands Author Edit His Book

C.I.A. Demands Author Edit His Book
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WASHINGTON — In what amounts to a fight over who gets to write the history of
the Sept. 11 attacks and their aftermath, the Central Intelligence Agency is
demanding extensive cuts from the memoir of a former F.B.I. agent who spent
years near the center of the battle against Al Qaeda.
The agent, Ali H. Soufan, argues in the book that the C.I.A. missed a chance to
derail the 2001 plot by withholding from the F.B.I. information about two future
9/11 hijackers living in San Diego, according to several people who have read
the manuscript. And he gives a detailed, firsthand account of the C.I.A.’s
move toward brutal treatment in its interrogations, saying the harsh methods
used on the agency’s first important captive, Abu Zubaydah, were unnecessary
and counterproductive.
Neither critique of the C.I.A. is new. In fact, some of the information that
the agency argues is classified, according to two people who have seen the
correspondence between the F.B.I. and C.I.A., has previously been disclosed in
open Congressional hearings, the report of the national commission on 9/11 and
even the 2007 memoir of George J. Tenet, the former C.I.A. director.
Mr. Soufan, an Arabic-speaking counterterrorism agent who played a central role
in most major terrorism investigations between 1997 and 2005, has told
colleagues he believes the cuts are intended not to protect national security
but to prevent him from recounting episodes that in his view reflect badly on
the C.I.A.