(NY Times) Prosecutors called a retired F.B.I. agent this week to testify that the man who is accused of orchestrating the Sept. 11 attacks freely discussed the deadly hijacking plot during four days of questioning in January 2007.
In doing so, the former agent, Frank Pellegrino, revealed that at the outset of the interrogation, the prisoner asked when he would see a lawyer.
Mr. Pellegrino said he brushed off the request and went on to obtain a confession during 12 to 13 hours of questioning at Guantánamo Bay.
The prisoner, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, would not get to consult a lawyer for another 15 months. By then, prosecutors had issued capital charges against him, five years after his capture in Pakistan and after years in the C.I.A.’s clandestine prison network, the black sites, where he was tortured.
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