The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture (Academic Edition): Executive Summary of the Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Detention and Interrogation Program-Fast Shipping

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The study edition of book the Los Angeles Times called, “The most extensive review of U.S. intelligence-gathering tactics in generations.”

Thisis the complete Executive Summary of the Senate IntelligenceCommittee’s investigation into the CIA’s interrogation and detentionprograms — a.k.a., The Torture Report.

Based on over six millionpages of secret CIA documents, the report details a covert program ofsecret prisons, prisoner deaths, interrogation practices, andcooperation with other foreign and domestic agencies, as well as theCIA’s efforts to hide the details of the program from the White House,the Department of Justice, the Congress, and the American people.
Overfive years in the making, it is presented here exactly as redacted andreleased by the United States government on December 9, 2014, with anintroduction by Daniel J. Jones, who led the Senate investigation.

This special edition includes:

•Large, easy-to-read format.

•Almost3,000 notes formatted as footnotes, exactly as they appeared in theoriginal report. This allows readers to see obscured or clarifyingdetails as they read the main text.

•An introductionby Senate staffer Daniel J. Jones who led the investigation and wrotethe report for the Senate Intelligence Committee, and a forward by thehead of that committee, Senator Dianne Feinstein.