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The Forever Prisoner - The Full and Searing Account of the Cia's Most Controversial Covert Program (Hardcover)
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The Forever Prisoner - The Full and Searing Account of the Cia's Most Controversial Covert Program (Hardcover)
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Some argued it would save the U.S. after 9/11. Instead, the CIA's
enhanced interrogation program came to be defined as American
torture. The Forever Prisoner, a primary source for the recent HBO
Max film directed by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney, exposes the
full story behind the most divisive CIA operation in living
memory.Six months after 9/11, the CIA captured Abu Zubaydah and
announced he was number three in Al Qaeda. Frantic to thwart a
much-feared second wave of attacks, the U.S. rendered him to a
secret black site in Thailand, where he collided with retired Air
Force psychologist James Mitchell. Arguing that Abu Zubaydah had
been trained to resist interrogation and was withholding vital
clues, the CIA authorized Mitchell and others to use brutal
"enhanced interrogation techniques" that would have violated U.S.
and international laws had not government lawyers rewritten the
rulebook.In The Forever Prisoner, Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy
recount dramatic scenes inside multiple black sites around the
world through the eyes of those who were there, trace the twisted
legal justifications, and chart how enhanced interrogation, a key
"weapon" in the global "War on Terror," metastasized over seven
years, encompassing dozens of detainees in multiple locations, some
of whom died. Ultimately that war has cost 8 trillion dollars,
900,000 lives, and displaced 38 million people--while the U.S.
Senate judged enhanced interrogation was torture and had produced
zero high-value intelligence. Yet numerous men, including Abu
Zubaydah, remain imprisoned in Guantanamo, never charged with any
crimes, in contravention of America's ideals of justice and due
process, because their trials would reveal the extreme brutality
they experienced.Based on four years of intensive reporting, on
interviews with key protagonists who speak candidly for the first
time, and on thousands of previously classified documents, The
Forever Prisoner is a powerful chronicle of a shocking experiment
that remains in the headlines twenty years after its inception,
even as US government officials continue to thwart efforts to
expose war crimes.Silenced by a CIA pledge to keep him imprisoned
and incommunicado forever, Abu Zubaydah speaks loudly through these
pages, prompting the question as to whether he and others remain
detained not because of what they did to us but because of what we
did to them.
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