The NBC News analysis shows that more than one quarter of all footnotes in the 9/11 Report refer to CIA interrogations of al-Qaida operatives who were subjected to the now-controversial interrogation techniques. In fact, information derived from the interrogations is central to the Report’s most critical chapters, those on the planning and execution of the attacks. The analysis also shows - and agency and commission staffers concur - there was a separate, second round of interrogations in early 2004, done specifically to answer new questions from the Commission.
9/11 Commission staffers say they "guessed" but did not know for certain that harsh techniques had been used, and they were concerned that the techniques had affected the operatives’ credibility. At least four of the operatives whose interrogation figured in the 9/11 Commission Report have claimed that they told interrogators critical information as a way to stop being "tortured." The claims came during their hearings last spring at the U.S. military facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba...
Further in the article:
This torture only stopped when Majid agreed to sign a statement that he wasn’t even allowed to read.
And:
Zelikow said the lack of direct access forced the Commission to seek secondary sources and to request the new round of questioning. In the end, says Zelikow, the Commission relied heavily on the information derived from the interrogations, but remained skeptical of it. Zelikow admits that "quite a bit, if not most" of its information on the 9/11 conspiracy "did come from the interrogations."
http://deepbackground.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/30/624314.aspx
Dr. Zelikow approached:
UPDATE --YOUTUBE SHUT DOWN THE AUDIO!!!!
SHAME ON YOU YOUTUBE, YOU SHUT DOWN ALEX JONES TWICE, YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A CORPORATE STOOGE FOR THE NEW WORLD ORDER. THOSE WORKING INSIDE YOUTUBE MUST DECIDE WHOSE SIDE THEY ARE ON !