More Interrogation Tapes?

TPM:

One more thing from today's must-read New York Times piece. Mazzetti and Shane also report that a former CIA detainee claims to have seen cameras in his interrogation chamber. Although CIA Director Mike Hayden said "videotaping stopped in 2002" in his Thursday message to the CIA, the ex-detainee, Muhammad Bashmilah, was in CIA custody from 2004 to 2005.

The former prisoner who reported seeing cameras, Muhammad Bashmilah of Yemen, was seized by Jordanian intelligence agents in 2003 and turned over to the C.I.A., according to an investigation by Amnesty International, the human rights advocacy organization. He was flown from Jordan to Afghanistan in October 2003 and held there until April 2004, when he was flown by plane and helicopter to a C.I.A. jail in an unidentified country, Amnesty found. Mr. Bashmilah and two other Yemeni men held with him were flown to Yemen in May 2005 and later released.

Meg Satterthwaite, a director of the International Human Rights Clinic at New York University who is representing Mr. Bashmilah in a lawsuit, said Mr. Bashmilah described cameras both in his cells and in interrogation rooms, some on tripods and some on the wall. She said his descriptions of his imprisonment, in hours of conversation in Yemen and by phone this year, were lucid and detailed.