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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809993903321

Titolo

Rebuttal : the CIA responds to the Senate Intelligence Committee's study of its detention and interrogation program / / edited by Bill Harlow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Annapolis, Maryland : , : Naval Institute Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-59114-588-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Classificazione

POL037000POL036000POL030000

Disciplina

363.325/1650973

Soggetti

Detention of persons - Government policy - United States

Extraordinary rendition - United States

Unlawful combatants - Abuse of - United States

Torture - Government policy - United States

Prisoners of war - Abuse of - United States

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Terrorism

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Intelligence

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: CIA Interrogation of al Qa'ida Terrorists--The Rest of the Story -- GEORGE J. TENET -- What Must Never Happen Again? -- PORTER GOSS -- Analysis: Flawed, Politicized. and Rejected -- GEN. MICHAEL V. HAYDEN, USAF, RET. -- The Senate Majority Report on Interrogation: An Opportunity Lost -- JOHN MCLAUGHLIN -- First Amendment Wrongs -- MICHAEL MORELL -- The Craft of Intelligence and the Value of Detainee Information: Lessons from the CIA's al Qa'ida Prisoners -- J. PHILIP MUDD -- The Legal Case for EITs -- JOHN RIZZO -- Broken Covenant -- JOSE A. RODRIGUEZ JR. -- The CIA Rebuttal -- The Minority Report.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--

"In December 2014 the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) released a 500+ page executive summary of a 6000 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 the 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"--