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For two decades Scheuer (left) was a central figure in some of the major controversies of America's war on Islamist extremist groups, including secret detention centers and brutal interrogations.
Alfreda Scheuer worked at CIA black sites, where she personally didn't torture anyone, before taking on her newest challenge.
By Aram Roston WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the 2012 Hollywood hit “Zero Dark Thirty,” a red-haired Central Intelligence Agency analyst played by Jessica Chastain travels to a secret CIA prison and watches a colleague waterboard a screaming Al Qaeda suspect, then lock him in a box a little bigger than a mini-fridge, to make him talk.
For two decades Scheuer was a central figure in some of the major controversies of America’s war on Islamist extremist groups, including secret detention centers and brutal interrogations. CIA operatives normally operate in a dark, shadowy world, but Scheuer’s experiences found the spotlight.