Reddit reviews The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda (First Edition)

Bin laden never would have had a trial. He never wanted to be captured alive. While on the run in Afghanistan, after the U.S. invasion, he hired a man whose job it was to shoot him if they ever got caught.
(Source) Black Banners by Ali Soufan

Not the first time. The CIA did the same thing with Khalid_El-Masri.

I was originally for the war in Afghanistan to go after al Qaeda. But when the U.S. is rendering the wrong people, torturing them and then refusing to release them even when they know they were innocent, well, that's where shit gets really bad and beyond criminal.

Yet no one has ever answered to or been punished for these crimes.

What's worse, as told in, among other sources, Lawrence Wright's book, Ali Soufan's book, Joby Warrick's book and the Secrecy Kills audio documentary 'Who is Richard Blee,' many of these people responsible were also responsible for the intelligence failures leading up to 9/11.

Except torture has been repeatedly shown to be less effective than other methods of interrogation. Read The Black Banners, Legacy of Ashes, or one of the numerous other books that cover the CIA's recent actions before you continue to perpetuate the lie that torture works.

I want to recommend, Ali H. Soufan's The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda.

My brief synopsis,
The book provides a fantastic history of Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda. Ali Soufan was an FBI criminal investigator who worked on peicing together the U.S.S. Cole bombing in Oct of 2000. He explained the operations and logistics of how the jihadist group conducted its terrorist attack. Ali was an opponent to harsh interogations and a master at seducing captured al-Qaeda memebers to revealing information.

I think you're thinking of The Black Banners by Ali Soufan, where he discusses his work as an FBI interrogator. He goes into a lot of depth about how he would cultivate a relationship with his subject.

His second book, Anatomy of Terror, is also an excellent history of al-Qaeda as known to the West.

This is clearly described in The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda by Ali Soufan

Actually it was always know that NYPD officers were posted overseas. Since they are collecting NYC focused intel, I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing.

This book by a muslim FBI agent said one of the issues the FBI had dealing with the CIA is as LEOs they had higher standards for collecting evidence to be used in trials. I would assume that if people overseas were targeting NYC, and they wanted to have a proper trial (ok I don't see that part actually happening, but the facade of a fair trial), it would make sense to have an NYPD detective to advise the CIA on how to make sure their intel is admissible in court.