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

Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

ISBN 10: 1505563690 / ISBN 13: 9781505563696

Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture: Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency?s Detention and Interrogation Program
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1505563690
• ISBN 13: 9781505563696
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good

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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.

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 United States.”