<p>FBI, CIA Debate Significance of Terror Suspect</p>
<p>Agencies Also Disagree On Interrogation Methods</p>
<p>By Dan Eggen and Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, December 18, 2007; Page A01 </p>
<p>Al-Qaeda captive Abu Zubaida, whose interrogation videotapes were destroyed by the CIA, remains the subject of a dispute between FBI and CIA officials over his significance as a terrorism suspect and whether his most important revelations came from traditional interrogations or from torture.
While CIA officials have described him as an important insider whose disclosures under intense pressure saved lives, some FBI agents and analysts say he is largely a loudmouthed and mentally troubled hotelier whose credibility dropped as the CIA subjected him to a simulated drowning technique known as waterboarding and to other “enhanced interrogation” measures. </p>
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