"That the CIA may be in possession of the world’s most highly classified vacuum cleaner blueprints is but one peculiar, lasting byproduct of the controversial U.S. detention and interrogation program."
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Confined to the basement of a CIA secret prison in Romania about a decade ago, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the admitted mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, asked his jailers whether he could embark on an unusual project: Would the spy agency allow Mohammed, who had earned his bachelor’s in mechanical engineering, to design a vacuum cleaner?
Read: AP Exclusive: The CIA and a secret vacuum cleaner
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LTMC: Sounds like a great plot lead for a new season of “24.” Where is Kiefer Sutherland when you need him?
“Yes, this is Jack Bauer. Get me the President. We need to talk about a vacuum cleaner.”
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