The enhanced interrogation techniques the cia used on. Trumps new cia director played a significant part in. Inside the minds and motives of the islamic terrorists trying to. You cannot make a decision on enhanced interrogation until you read this book. Enhanced interrogation techniques project gutenberg self. A book on the enhanced interrogation program that tortures. Mitchell admitted his role in the program to vice news in 2014, but his book, which will be released tuesday, is his comprehensive.
This is not a news story from someone who has just heard or guessed about it, but it is instead a genuine view of what really happened in enhanced interrogation. In the dark days immediately after 911, the cia turned to d. How the cias enhanced interrogation techniques became legal. The inside story of how the cia, pentagon, and us government conspired to torture. Inside the minds and motives of the islamic terrorists trying to destroy america by james e. Enhanced interrogation january 30 guantanamo bay, cuba a clash over the senate intelligence committees 2014 report on the cias enhanced interrogation program, which the democratic majority called torture, took center stage throughout a 911 court hearing in guantanamo bay, cuba. One thing that i think has sometimes been lost in all these years of controversy over the cia program, the enhanced interrogation techniques, having been there and playing a key role in what led. Enhanced interrogations dont work as well as regular. In a world filled with inaccurate and false reporting, it was refreshing to get a true and honest view by the person who created the program with the advice of legal counsel of enhanced interrogation techniques, their application and the results achieved in the war against terrorism. Armed forces at black sites around the world, including bagram, guantanamo bay, and abu ghraib.
The technique is long, complicated, and involves several strategies. Learn why enhanced interrogation techniques may be counterproductive, leading to misleading or false confessions. Psychologists behind cia enhanced interrogation program settle detainees lawsuit. Whether the enhanced interrogation techniques the two allegedly designed were critical in eliciting useful intelligence, or. The debate over enhanced interrogation techniques has remained opaque and political, in part because of the lack of research demonstrating clearly that those techniques are better or worse than. Mitchell is one of the architects of the enhanced interrogation techniques used by the george w. A civilian contractor who had spent years training u. The psychologist regarded as the architect of the cias enhanced interrogation program has broken a sevenyear silence to defend the use of torture techniques. Army best defense guest columnist most americans do not realize the sheer volume of literature that exists showing that torture. Interrogations also included such practices as sleep deprivation, stress positions, and loud noises. Armed forces at black sites around the world, including bagram, guantanamo bay, and abu ghraib, authorized by officials of the george w. The main focus of the film is jones five years spent compiling the senate report on cia use of eit, or enhanced interrogation techniques.
The report looks at investigation into cias enhanced interrogation program nprs mary louise kelly talks with daniel j. Inside the minds and motives of the islamic terrorists trying to destroy america kindle edition by mitchell, james e. Enhanced interrogations dont work as well as regular ones an iraqi army soldier closes the door of a cell in abu ghraib prison near baghdad in 2006. These are the enhanced interrogation techniques the cia used on detainees.
Mitchell wrote this book with the as sistance of former. Offering a biblical critique of enhanced interrogation techniques and working within the centuriesold framework of the just war tradition, harlow shows that hard questions can be answered and that, in a world of gray, black and white does exist. Mitchell wrote a memoir, enhanced interrogation, in which he claimed that the enhanced interrogation techniques helped foil alqaida attacks on the us. The idea, rizzo said, was to startle or humiliate the detainee, zubaydah, and. The very phrase used by the president to describe torturethatisntsomehowtorture enhanced interrogation techniques is a term originally coined by the nazis. A book on the enhanced interrogation program that tortures the. Enhanced interrogation techniques or alternative set of procedures refers to the while there has never been an accurate tally of the number of detainees subjected to these methods, the cia has admitted to waterboarding individuals implicated in the september 11 attacks, notably abu zubaydah, khalid shaikh mohammed, and mohammed alqahtani. Bush administration to get information out of captured terrorists. Cia torture architect breaks silence to defend enhanced. In enhanced interrogation, mitchell has crafted an extensive, revealing, and emotionally gripping account of the eit program. James elmer mitchell born 1952 is an american psychologist and former member of the united states air force. The general public has largely had no idea what information the terrorists revealed to their captors. Enhanced interrogation techniques are techniques including walling, sleep deprivation, and waterboarding.
Enhanced interrogation explained the cias detention and interrogation program allowed the use of socalled enhanced interrogation techniques on detainees captured after 911. The book comes across as a selfserving rehash of wellworn arguments about the value of waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques eits, as well as lengthy complaints about the unfair scrutiny on mitchell and his business partner, fellow psychologist john bruce jessen. But the real news in his book is what happened after enhanced interrogations ended and the terrorists began cooperating. New research suggests enhanced interrogation not effective. A book crossexamines the true consequences of torture. Says book doesnt lay a glove on her panels conclusions about interrogation program.
Bush administration in the united states to describe interrogation methods used by us military intelligence and the central intelligence agency cia to extract information from individuals captured in the war on terror after the september 11 attacks in 2001. Inside the minds and motives of the islamic terrorists trying to destroy america, about the development and workings of the cias. Fallon keeps mentioning that enhanced interrogation techniques are all based on sere training, and that the training was designed to help. Enhanced interrogation marchapril 2017 english edition. Thirteen enhanced interrogation techniques interrogation methods are at the center of the senate intelligence committee report about the cias use of harsh interrogation tactics after. Enhanced interrogation techniques or enhanced interrogation is a euphemism for the.
Do enhanced interrogation techniques lead to false. The convenient terrorist by john kiriakou and joseph hickman. Notably, presidentelect trump is interested in bringing back some of these tactics. The interrogation starts with the officer telling the suspect that the evidence points to his guilt. This book s real raison detre is defense of the cia enhanced interrogation program generally, and mitchells participation specifically. Enhanced interrogation techniques or enhanced interrogation is a euphemism for the program of systematic torture of detainees by the central intelligence agency cia, the defense intelligence agency dia and various components of the u. Readers will follow him inside the cells of the most dangerous men on earth as he personally applied controversial techniques techniques that critics call torture but that the u.
Inside the minds and motives of the islamic terrorists trying to destroy america kindle edition published november 29th 2016 by crown forum kindle edition, 320 pages. Who is daniel jones from the report inside the senate. Inside the minds and motives of the islamic terrorists trying to destroy america. However, he takes care to not actually blame the suspect for the crime. It was conducted between 2002 and 2009, with the authorization of officials in the bush administrations white house and the department of justice. An examination of enhanced interrogation techniques under the light of scripture and the just war tradition reformed academic dissertations. Inside the minds and motives of the islamic terrorists trying to destroy america by eric jens. Unter dem begriff enhanced interrogation techniques, kurz eit, auch enhanced interrogation. Gina haspel, now in the highest position at the cia, was involved in the use of enhanced interrogation techniques on a suspected terrorist in 2002. Inside the minds and motives of the islamic terrorists trying to destroy america is a firsthand account of the cias controversial interrogation program which most famously included such techniques as waterboarding by one of its architects, psychologist james mitchell, who also served as an interrogator, and former cia spokesman bill harlow. The report looks at investigation into cias enhanced. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. James mitchell talked about his book, enhanced interrogation. Enhanced interrogation may get someone to talk, but theres no evidence that its the truth.
Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading enhanced interrogation. Mitchell, with bill harlow crown forum, 2016, 309 pp. Fretting over waterboarding, writes british historian andrew roberts, obscures the fact that enhanced interrogation techniques have saved thousands of. The architect of bushs enhanced interrogation program. A list of the enhanced interrogation techniques used by. Inside the minds and motives of the islamic terrorists who are trying to destroy america james e. If you want to know the details of what happened and make your. Published here for the first time, they are gritty and highly personal depictions that put flesh, bones and emotion on what until now had sometimes been. Inside the minds and motives of the islamic terrorists trying to destroy america mitchell ph. The reid technique is one of the primary interrogation techniques used by the police. The twoway psychologists bruce jessen and james mitchell devised a. A cia contractor said saturday that allowing enhanced interrogation techniques many of which are considered to be torture to be used on terrorist detainees remains necessary. Jones, lead investigator for the senate intelligence committees report. Enhanced interrogation techniques or alternative set of procedures were terms adopted by the george w.
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