In an interview with Current TV’s liberal news host Keith Olbermann, former FBI interrogator Ali Soufan — who was pulled off terrorist interrogations by the Bush administration in the months before the CIA began torturing suspects — claimed the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 could have been prevented if he’d been allowed to continue his work.

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Soufan’s book, “The Black Banners,” is available now.

This video is from Current TV’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann, broadcast Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011.