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The Black Banners (Declassified) - How Torture Derailed the War on Terror after 9/11 (Hardcover, Declassified Edition)
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The Black Banners (Declassified) - How Torture Derailed the War on Terror after 9/11 (Hardcover, Declassified Edition)
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Widely heralded on publication as a "must-read" (Military Review)
and "important window on America's battle with al-Qaeda"
(Washington Post), Ali Soufan's revelatory account of the war on
terror as seen from its front lines changed the way we understand
al-Qaeda and how the United States prosecuted the war-and led to
hard questions being asked of our leaders. When The Black Banners
was published in 2011, significant portions of the text were
redacted. After subsequent review by the Central Intelligence
Agency, those redactions have been lifted. Their removal corrects
the record on how vital intelligence was obtained from al-Qaeda
suspects and brings forth important new details on the
controversial use of enhanced interrogation techniques (torture) to
extract information from terror suspects. For many years,
proponents of the use of these techniques have argued that they
produced actionable intelligence in the war on terror. This edition
of The Black Banners explodes this myth; it shows Soufan at work
using guile and intelligent questioning-not force or violence-to
extract some of the most important confessions in the war, and it
vividly recounts the failures of the government's torture program.
Drawing on Soufan's experiences as a lead operative for the FBI and
declassified government records, The Black Banners (Declassified)
documents the intelligence failures that lead to the tragic attacks
on New York and Washington, DC, and subsequently how torture
derailed the fight against al-Qaeda. With this edition, eighteen
years on from the first sanctioned enhanced interrogation
technique, the public can finally read the complete story of what
happened in their name after the events of 9/11. The Black Banners
(Declassified) includes a new foreword from Ali Soufan that
addresses the significance of the CIA's decision to lift the
redactions.
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