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The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture

By: Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Gabrielle de Cuir
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Summary

Meticulously formatted, this is a highly listenable edition of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation of Central Intelligence Agency interrogation and detention programs launched in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. 

Based on over six million internal CIA documents, the report details secret prisons - like the one in Thailand run by Gina Haspel - prisoner deaths, interrogation practices, and cooperation with other foreign and domestic agencies. It also examines charges that the CIA deceived elected officials and governmental overseers about the extent and legality of its operations. 

Over five years in the making, and withheld from public view since its declassification in April, 2014, this is the full summary report as finally released by the United States government on December 9, 2014.

©2014 Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (P)2019 Blackstone Publishing
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One for the historians

A good performance by the reader (how many times can you say "redacted" without sounding bored?) covers quite a technical tome. A useful document for those interested in intelligence work and the post 9/11 environment. The Senate report is flawed though. It is clearly partisan from it's overall tone and fails in some key aspects. 1. It does not credit any intelligence being gathered by the CIA special techniques but only looks at where they were supposedly unnecessary. 2. It fails to realise that the CIA operatives would not necessarily have had visibility of FBI etc. obtained info from prisoners, given that the CIA interrogators were based in camps in the middle of nowhere without access to the highly classified databases back at Langley. 3. The report fails to enquire why the CIA continued to use special measures with prisoners despite - according to the report - not getting results. I could go on, but that's a flavour of the faults with the Senate report. It's still interesting to hear the processes used by the intelligence agencies though.

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Important but dry

While the contentment of the book is obviously very important I think if you actually want to engage with the material get the TV show tie in edition or get a physical copy you can read in your own time.

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