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Summary:

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 lengths to which the CIA had gone to conceal it. In The Torture Report, Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón use their graphic-storytelling abilities to make the damning report accessible, allowing Americans to lift the veil and fully understand the crimes committed by the CIA.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction / 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 / Scott Horton.

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Author/Creator:

Jacobson, Sidney , author

Contributors:

Colón, Ernie , illustrator

Mayer, Jane , author of introduction

Horton, Scott , author of afterword

United States Congress > Senate > Select Committee on Intelligence

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The torture report: a graphic adaptation [by Jacobson, S.]

Related Works:

Graphic novelization of: Senate Intelligence Committee report on torture [United States Congress ... Select Committee on Intelligence]

Subjects:

United States Central Intelligence Agency — Comic books, strips, etc.

Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp — Comic books, strips, etc.

Torture — Government policy — United States — Comic books, strips, etc.

Intelligence service — United States — Comic books, strips, etc.

Terrorism — Government policy — United States — Comic books, strips, etc.

Prisoners of war — Abuse of — United States — Comic books, strips, etc.

Political prisoners — Abuse of — United States — Comic books, strips, etc.

Detention of persons — Comic books, strips, etc.

United States Central Intelligence Agency

Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp

Torture — Government policy

Torture

Intelligence service

Terrorism — Government policy

Terrorism

Prisoners of war — Abuse of

Prisoners of war

Political prisoners — Abuse of

Political prisoners

Detention of persons

United States

Genres:

Graphic novels

Comic books, strips, etc.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 123).

Physical Description:

xi, 125 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm

Call Numbers:

KF31.5.I5 J33 2017

ISBNs:

9781568585758 (paperback)
1568585756 (paperback)

OCLC Numbers:

945232234