Screen LibraryBlack site : the CIA in the post-9/11 world /
When the Twin Towers fell on September 11, 2001, nowhere were the reverberations more powerfully felt than at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Almost overnight the intelligence organization evolved into a war-fighting intelligence service, constructing a web of top-secret detention facilities...
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Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2019] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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When the Twin Towers fell on September 11, 2001, nowhere were the reverberations more powerfully felt than at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Almost overnight the intelligence organization evolved into a war-fighting intelligence service, constructing a web of top-secret detention facilities intended to help prevent future attacks on American soil and around the world. Mudd presents a never-before-told story of this now-controversial program, directly addressing how far America went to pursue al-Qa'ida and prevent another catastrophe. He posits that the 2014 Senate report detailing th |
| Carrier Form: | xix, 247 pages ; 25 cm |
| ISBN: |
9781631491979 (hardback) : 1631491970 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | JK468 |
| CLC: | D771.236-09 |
| Call Number: | D771.236-09/M943 |
| Contents: | The lean years -- Risk avoidance -- The prelude to the Program -- The CIA revolutionizes -- The problem with prisoners -- Salt pit -- The first Program prisoner -- The definition of pain -- The second wave -- The fateful decisions -- Expansion and training -- Maturation -- The Program goes public -- Endgame -- Ethics and reflections. |