Summary
"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 headquarter... Full description
- 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.