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Updated October 30, 2009

Documents Released Show Struggle With FBI, CIA Over Detainees

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Newly released documents show the FBI and the CIA struggling over how to treat terror suspects.

Newly released documents show the FBI interviewed a naked, chained terror suspect back in 2002, as the bureau struggled with the CIA over how to treat high-value prisoners.

Details of the interrogation were contained in documents released as part of a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union for details of U.S. treatment of terror detainees.

As the CIA began to use harsh interrogation techniques against captured terror suspects, the FBI became wary of the methods and agents were ordered not to participate.

Yet sometime in late 2002, an FBI agent interviewed Ramzi Binalshibh at a CIA site. The agent later said he got valuable information out of Binalshibh before the CIA shut down the questioning.

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