Interrogators were under intense pressure from the Bush Administration to use harsh interrogation tactics to prove the fictional al Qaeda-Saddam connection, Jonathan Landay reports for McClatchy, relying on a combination of the Levin report (pdf.) and a former senior intelligence official.
The New Yorker‘s Jane Mayer notes that the Levin report also sheds new light on that crucial period between the capture of Abu Zubayda in March 2002 and the Bybee torture memo in August 2002 that sought to legally bless torture.
