As the German Spiegel writes, "the torture practices used in interrogations of al-Qaida prisoners were not developed by government officials in Washington, but by private security experts" contracted by the Bush administration.
The development and supervision of the interrogations and torture were outsourced to a private security firm called "Mitchell Jessen & Associates," whose personnel had no previous hands-on experience in prisoner interrogations.
The "torture manual," also called a "special interrogation techniques" manual, was developed by James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, two psychologists who never before conducted a real interrogation of prisoners.
This would be like asking a bank that specializes in credit cards to develop a new healthcare plan for the United States.
In return for a daily consulting fee, "Mitchell Jessen & Associates" supervised the torture at the CIA's secret prisons around the world from the very beginning of torture and prisoner abuse programs authorized in the summer of 2002 by the previous American administration led by George Bush.
Click here to read the Spiegel article about the torture business in the United States
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"What I have learned is that as the administration authorized harsh interrogation in April and May of 2002 -- well before the Justice Department had rendered any legal opinion -- its principal priority for intelligence was not aimed at pre-empting another terrorist attack on the U.S. but discovering a smoking gun linking Iraq and al-Qa'ida."
Source: http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2009/05/the_truth_about/
As reasonable people around the world know and always knew, there was no link between Iraq and al-Qa'ida... Bush and his criminal company just needed a reason, even a false one, to invade Iraq and get that oil...
You can ask Chaney and his minions if you are still skeptical.