The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture: Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program - Softcover

Senate Select Committee On Intelligence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1612194850 ISBN 13: 9781612194851

Verlag: Melville House, 2014

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A Boston Globe Bestseller

"This massive chronicle of malfeasance concerns not only the efficacy of certain interrogation techniques, not only the perennial clash between spies and their civilian overseers, but something far more profound: the nation's political soul."
--Harper's

"A high-quality version of the 500-some page report."
--John Hockenberry, The Takeaway/WNYC

"The most extensive review of U.S. intelligence-gathering tactics in generations."
--Los Angeles Times

"The Senate intelligence committee's report is a landmark in accountability . . . It is one of the most shocking documents ever produced by any modern democracy about its own abuses of its own highest principles."
--The Guardian (UK)

"Exhaustive . . . Haunting"
--Washington Post

"The small independent publisher Melville House has done it, turning 'a five-hundred-and-twenty-eight-page PDF with the slanted margins and blurred resolution of a Xerox made by a myopic high-school Latin teacher' into a more readable text."
--Andrew Sullivan, The Dish

"Releasing this report is an important step to restoring our values and showing the world that we are a just society."
--Senate Intelligence Committee chair Senator Dianne Feinstein

"A portrait of depravity that is hard to comprehend and even harder to stomach."
--New York Times

"Details the use of gruesome torture techniques used by the CIA and . . . concludes that the agency misled both the White House and Congress."
--Christian Science Monitor

"I believe the American people have a right--indeed, a responsibility--to know what was done in their name; how these practices did or did not serve our interests; and how they comported with our most important values. I commend Chairman Feinstein and her staff for their diligence in seeking a truthful accounting of policies I hope we will never resort to again."
--Senator John McCain

"Melville House is betting that there's enough interest in the Torture Report that people will want to have it in book form."
--Rachel Maddow, MSNBC

"The book business in 2015 is pretty much a crapshoot, but it's hard to believe that even the canniest insider could've predicted the sales success that indie publisher Melville House has had with the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture."
--Vulture

"A tiny Brooklyn publishing house printed a 50,000-copy run of the Senate torture report--and it's flying off shelves faster than The Goldfinch."
--Entertainment Weekly

"Given the swift and harsh condemnations of CIA interrogation tactics, the Torture Report is sure to top nonfiction charts for months to come -- mark my words."
--Bustle

"If you were wondering why it's important that indie presses exist, HERE, THIS IS WHY."
--Portland Mercury

"A watershed moment in contemporary publishing."
--Flavorwire

"It's quite the important and powerful idea: that simply repackaging material can make it more accessible and can perhaps make it last--truly last--in the way we need to know and remember it."
--Ploughshares

"[Melville House is] continuing the critical work of publishing important documents."
--Shelf Awareness

"Small but conscientious Melville [House]...is rushing to get the report out promptly."
--Library Journal

Reseña del editor:

"The most extensive review of U.S. intelligence-gathering tactics in generations." "--Los Angeles Times" Meticulously formatted, this is a highly readable edition of the Senate Intelligence Committee's investigation of Central Intelligence Agency interrogation and detention programs launched in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Based on over six million internal CIA documents, the report details secret prisons, prisoner deaths, interrogation practices, and cooperation with other foreign and domestic agencies. It also examines charges that the CIA deceived elected officials and governmental overseers about the extent and legality of its operations. Over five years in the making, and withheld from public view since its declassification in April, 2014, this is the full summary report as finally released by the United States government on December 9th, 2014.

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• Verlag: Melville House
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1612194850
• ISBN 13: 9781612194851
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 576