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Ali Soufan details intelligence failures before 9/11, damage to U.S. reputation from torture

In this exclusive Web extra, Ali Soufan, a former FBI special agent and author of The Black Banners, details critical intelligence the CIA had well before 9/11 about al-Qaeda and the hijackers that was not shared with the FBI before the attacks. He also speaks out on the failure of using torture, specifically waterboarding, as a means of obtaining intelligence. “We lost a lot of opportunities because of enhanced interrogation techniques.” watch video