Richard Zuley, a Chicago police detective in 1990, talks to people at Argyle and Broadway while working a murder case. In 2003, he was on a special assignment as an interrogator at Guantanamo Bay.
Credit: Chicago Tribune

CHICAGO — When the Chicago detective Richard Zuley arrived at Guantánamo Bay late in 2002, US military commanders touted him as the hero they had been looking for.

Here was a Navy reserve lieutenant who had spent the last 25 years as a distinguished detective on the mean streets of Chicago, closing case after case – often due to his knack for getting confessions.

But while Zuley’s brutal interrogation techniques – prolonged shackling, family threats, demands on suspects to implicate themselves and others – would get supercharged at Guantánamo for the war on terrorism, […]