Author: Bill Harlow Publisher: Naval Institute Press ISBN: 1591145880 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 353
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In December 2014, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) released a 500+ page executive summary of a 6,000 page study of the CIA's detention and interrogation of al Qa'ida terrorists. In early 2015 publishers released the study in book form and called it "the report" on "torture." Rebuttal presents the "rest of the story." In addition to reprinting the official responses from the SSCI minority and CIA, this publication also includes eight essays from senior former CIA officials who all are deeply knowledgeable about the program —and yet none of whom were interviewed by the SSCI staff during the more than four years the report was in preparation. These authors of the eight essays are George Tenet, Porter Goss, Gen. Michael V. Hayden, USAF (Ret.), John McLaughlin, Michael Morell, J. Philip Mudd, John Rizzo, and Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.
Author: Dianne Feinstein Publisher: ISBN: 9781678813581 Category : Languages : en Pages : 525
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This is a direct facsimile of the full and complete Executive Summary prepared by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence of the report titled "Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program," also know as "The Torture Report." The report includes graphic descriptions of torture.
Author: Senate Select Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781505474817 Category : Languages : en Pages : 526
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Study of the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program - Foreword, Findings and Conclusions, and Executive Summary. The Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program, commonly known as the CIA Torture Report, is a 6,000-page report compiled by the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) about the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)'s Detention and Interrogation Program using enhanced interrogation techniques (a euphemism for torture) on detainees following the September 11 attacks in 2001. The full report has not been published, but the committee voted in April 2014 to release the recommendations, executive summary, and findings of the report. A 525-page unclassified portion of the report was released on December 9, 2014, after a presentation on the floor of the Senate by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), the chairwoman of the Select Committee on Intelligence. Over 90% of the report remains classified. The report, which took four years and $40 million to compile, focused on 2001-06. It detailed actions by CIA officials and shortcomings of the detention project. One key finding was that enhanced interrogation techniques did not help acquire actionable intelligence or gain cooperation from detainees.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities Publisher: ISBN: Category : Chile Languages : en Pages : 134
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities Publisher: ISBN: Category : Government publications Languages : en Pages : 264
Author: Russell A. Miller Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134064446 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 282
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This volume examines the investigation by the 1975 Senate Select Committee (‘Church Committee’) into US intelligence abuses during the Cold War, and considers its lessons for the current ‘war on terror’. This report remains the most thorough public record of America’s intelligence services, and many of the legal boundaries operating on US intelligence agencies today are the direct result of reforms proposed by the Church Committee, including the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The Church Committee also drew attention to the importance of constitutional government as a Congressional body overseeing the activities of the Executive branch. Placing the legacy of the Church Committee in the context of the contemporary debate over US national security and democratic governance, the book brings together contributions from distinguished policy leaders and scholars of law, intelligence and political science.
Author: Shane O'Mara Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674743903 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 333
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Torture is banned because it is cruel and inhumane. But as Shane O’Mara writes in this account of the human brain under stress, another reason torture should never be condoned is because it does not work the way torturers assume it does. In countless films and TV shows such as Homeland and 24, torture is portrayed as a harsh necessity. If cruelty can extract secrets that will save lives, so be it. CIA officers and others conducted torture using precisely this justification. But does torture accomplish what its defenders say it does? For ethical reasons, there are no scientific studies of torture. But neuroscientists know a lot about how the brain reacts to fear, extreme temperatures, starvation, thirst, sleep deprivation, and immersion in freezing water, all tools of the torturer’s trade. These stressors create problems for memory, mood, and thinking, and sufferers predictably produce information that is deeply unreliable—and, for intelligence purposes, even counterproductive. As O’Mara guides us through the neuroscience of suffering, he reveals the brain to be much more complex than the brute calculations of torturers have allowed, and he points the way to a humane approach to interrogation, founded in the science of brain and behavior. Torture may be effective in forcing confessions, as in Stalin’s Russia. But if we want information that we can depend on to save lives, O’Mara writes, our model should be Napoleon: “It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile.”
Author: President's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, The Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400851270 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 287
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The official report that has shaped the international debate about NSA surveillance "We cannot discount the risk, in light of the lessons of our own history, that at some point in the future, high-level government officials will decide that this massive database of extraordinarily sensitive private information is there for the plucking. Americans must never make the mistake of wholly 'trusting' our public officials."—The NSA Report This is the official report that is helping shape the international debate about the unprecedented surveillance activities of the National Security Agency. Commissioned by President Obama following disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward J. Snowden, and written by a preeminent group of intelligence and legal experts, the report examines the extent of NSA programs and calls for dozens of urgent and practical reforms. The result is a blueprint showing how the government can reaffirm its commitment to privacy and civil liberties—without compromising national security.
Author: Bill Harlow
Author: Dianne Feinstein
Author: Senate Select Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Author: United States. Congress
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities
Author: Frederick M. Kaiser
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities
Author: Russell A. Miller
Author: Shane O'Mara
Author: President's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, The