The torture report a graphic adaptation

author. Jacobson, Sid, 1929-2022

Graphic Novel 2017

"On December 9, 2014, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released a report that strongly condemned the CIA for its secret and brutal use of torture in the treatment of prisoners captured in the 'war on terror' during the George W. Bush administration. This deeply researched and fully documented investigation caused monumental controversy, interest, and concern, and starkly highlighted both how ineffective the program was as well as the l...

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ISBN:

9781568585758

Description:

xi, 125 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm

Contents:

Introduction by Jane Mayer
Who's Who
Foreword
Committee's Findings and Conclusions
Executive Summary, Background On Committee Study
Overall History and Operation of the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program
Detention of Abu Zubaydah and the Development of EITS
Detention and Interrogation of Ridha Al-Najjar
Detention and Death of Gul Rahman
Detention and Interrogation of Abd Al-Rahim Al-Nashiri
Detention and Interrogation of Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh
Detention and Interrogation of Khalid Shaykh Mohammad
Growth of the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program
End of the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program
Effectiveness of the CIA's EITS
Overview of CIA Representations to the Media While Program was Classified
Review of CIA Representations to the Department of Justice
Review of CIA Representations to Congress
CIA Destruction of Interrogation Videos
Examples of Inaccurate Testimony to the SSCI Part I
Aftermath of CIA Destruction of Interrogation Videos
Examples of Inaccurate Testimony to the SSCI Part II
Afterword by Scott Horton
Notes
Acknowledgments

Control Number:

2222885

Other Authors:

Colón, Ernie, artist
Horton, Scott, writer of afterword
Mayer, Jane, writer of introduction
graphic novelization of (work): United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence. Senate Intelligence Committee report on torture

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