The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture: Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency?s Detention and Interrogation Program - Softcover

Senate Select Committee On Intelligence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1505563690 ISBN 13: 9781505563696

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

The Senate Intelligence Committee’s summary of its report on the CIA’s post-9/11 torture program provides a sobering glimpse into one of the darkest chapters in the U.S. government's history. After a grueling 5-year investigation, Senate investigators reveal torrid details of the systemic and individual failures by the agency personnel who ran the "enhanced interrogation program" -- the government's euphemism for systematic torture--during the George W. Bush administration. The program involved capturing terrorism suspects and shipping them to secret overseas prisons, where they were subjected to techniques such as waterboarding (and worse). This is the full, 526-page executive summary unclassified and released by the Senate.

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Review

'A landmark in accountability . . . It is one of the most shocking documents ever produced by any modern democracy about its own abuses of its own highest principles.' --The Guardian

'Probably the most important government document of our generation even one of the most significant in the history of our democracy. - Melville House publisher Dennis Johnson quoted in the Guardian

'A portrait of depravity that is hard to comprehend and even harder to stomach.'- The New York Times

'Releasing this report is an important step to restoring our values and showing the world that we are a just society.'- Senate Intelligence Committee chair Senator Diane Feinstein

'I believe the American people have a right indeed, a responsibility to know what was done in their name; how these practices did or did not serve our interests; and how they comported with our most important values. I commend Chairman Feinstein and her staff for their diligence in seeking a truthful accounting of policies I hope we will never resort to again.'- --Senator John McCain

About the Author

The United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was created by the U.S. Senate in 1976 as a bipartisan committee responsible for overseeing federal intelligence activities. It is the committee's responsibility to "oversee and make continuing studies of the intelligence activities and programs of the United States Government," to "submit to the Senate appropriate proposals for legislation and report to the Senate concerning such intelligence activities and programs," and to provide vigilant legislative oversight over the intelligence activities of the United States to assure that such activities are in conformity with the Constitution and laws of the US."

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1505563690
• ISBN 13: 9781505563696
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 526