Haaretz is reporting today that the CIA is running a top-secret interrogation facility in Jordan where it is detaining at least 11 of Al Qaida’s top leaders including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The news comes a day after Human Rights Watch issued a report criticizing the top-secret detentions center. According to the group, the location of the detention center has been so secret that President George Bush asked the CIA heads not to report it to him. Until now the whereabouts of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other Al Qaeda leaders has been unknown. Haaretz reports that their detention outside the U.S. enables CIA interrogators to apply interrogation methods that are banned by U.S. law. According to the Human Rights Watch report, the CIA was granted special permission by the U.S. law enforcement authorities to operate “other laws” at the secret facility with regard to interrogation methods. Detainees are subjected to physical and psychological pressure that includes the use of simulated drowning, loud music, sleep deprivation, and sensory deprivation. Some of these methods were exposed with the revelation of torture techniques used by American interrogators at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.