Some of the detail behind how KSM gave information to the CIA

[Jobu]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/28/AR2009082803874.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2009082804015

Pretty remarkable, if all true.

[Panchito12]

Waterboarding AQ....it's a good thing.

[renegade]

"During the harshest period of my interrogation I gave a lot of false information in order to satisfy what I believed the interrogators wished to hear in order to make the ill-treatment stop. I later told interrogators that their methods were stupid and counterproductive. I'm sure that the false information I was forced to invent in order to make the ill-treatment stop wasted a lot of their time," he said.

[Jobu]

"During the harshest period of my interrogation I gave a lot of false information in order to satisfy what I believed the interrogators wished to hear in order to make the ill-treatment stop. I later told interrogators that their methods were stupid and counterproductive. I'm sure that the false information I was forced to invent in order to make the ill-treatment stop wasted a lot of their time," he said.

I'm sure some of what he said were lies and I'm sure the interrogators expected it and took appropriate measures as any interrogator would.

In the end, as the article makes very clear, he sang like a canary and became the best source we had on Al Qaeda..