devil in the details

What is most fascinating is the narrative of shifting alliances, duplicity, and complicity. That relationship picked up after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, when Qaddafi came clean to the West about his own covert program to acquire W.M.D.s—which he then abandoned. It then appears to have evolved into a pattern of closely coordinated operations against suspected terrorists, some of them targets of the CIA’s controversial “rendition” program. One C.I.A. document offered the Libyan authorities a list questions to pose a rendered Libyan suspect it had turned over to Libyans for questioning.