While the interrogation programs ran, the gap in his head seemed to open, and a set of restric- tions and possibilities entered his mind.

Time and again, he led the interrogation programs away from the questions he feared.

In addition, the inquiry is likely to look at the Bush administration's program of eavesdropping without warrants and its detention and interrogation program.

In 2010, Cheney said, "I was and remain a strong proponent of our enhanced interrogation program."

The C.I.A.'s interrogation program has been troubled.

Some elements of the New Yorker article have been previously reported, including the special interrogation program for Qaeda prisoners captured in Afghanistan.

The tapes were made in 2002 as part of a secret detention and interrogation program, and were destroyed in November 2005.

In subsequent articles, Hersh claimed that the abuses were part of a secret interrogation program, known as "Copper Green".

The paper did not advocate abandoning the covert interrogation program, but restricting it to the shorter-term questioning of more important suspects, officials said.

The downlink computers wrote an interrogation program for Vera, and she's been working at it all along, and-what's the matter, Wan?