CIA reportedly refused to continue secret prison program

Frankly, I'm very suspicious about this report from the Financial Times:

The Bush administration had to empty its secret prisons and transfer terror suspects to the military-run detention centre at Guantánamo this month in part because CIA interrogators had refused to carry out further interrogations and run the secret facilities, according to former CIA officials and people close to the programme.

The former officials said the CIA interrogators’ refusal was a factor in forcing the Bush administration to act earlier than it might have wished.

This sounds to me like a deliberate leak from the White House to make it look as though Bush really had his hands forced by weak-kneed CIA types who didn't have the guts to continue with their torture program without laws to support them. It supports Bush's argument that the program won't "go forward" without new laws. I wish reporters would spend a little more effort trying to get to the bottom of their leakers motives.

Look, if it were really true that the C.I.A. personnel refused direct orders from Bush to continue this program, they would have been canned. Bush doesn't like people to confront him. Look at what happened to Joe Wilson's wife.