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Black site the CIA in the post-9/11 world

"A bold account of one of the most controversial and haunting initiatives in American history, [this book] tells the full story of the post-9/11 counterterrorism world at the CIA. When the towers fell on September 11, 2001, nowhere were the reverberations more powerfully felt than at CIA headqu...

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Main Author: Mudd, Philip (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Terrorism > Prevention > Government policy > United States.
Detention of persons > Government policy > United States.
Extraordinary rendition > United States.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 > Influence.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
Table of 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.

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