So, who's the torturing dentist?

In the middle of an otherwise serious news story in yesterday's New York Times, comes this peculiar nugget of information:

A. B. Krongard, who was the executive director of the C.I.A., ... even recalls receiving a proposal for help with questioning Qaeda suspects from an American dentist who said he “could create pain no human being could withstand.”

Yikes!

Here's the top of that story, in case you're wondering what it was all about:

Interrogation Methods Are Criticized – By SCOTT SHANE and MARK MAZZETTI – WASHINGTON, May 29 — As the Bush administration completes secret new rules governing interrogations, a group of experts advising the intelligence agencies are arguing that the harsh techniques used since the 2001 terrorist attacks are outmoded, amateurish and unreliable.