WASHINGTON, Sept 21: The Bush administration emptied its CIA prisons and transferred top terrorism suspects to Guantanamo Bay partly because CIA officers refused to carry out interrogations, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.
CIA officers were concerned that they could be prosecuted for using illegal interrogation techniques and refused to continue their work until their legal situation could be clarified, the newspaper said in an article quoting unnamed former spy agency officials.
Critics have said the secretive CIA programme of detentions and interrogation amounts to allowing torture, but the White House has denied this.—Reuters
