First published 2015
The Senate Intelligence Committee drops a bombshell in December 2014. Their 500-page summary condemns CIA interrogation methods used on al Qaeda prisoners. Publishers rush the report to print, branding it the definitive word on torture. But eight former CIA leaders know a different story. George Tenet, Porter Goss, Michael Hayden, and five other intelligence veterans watched the Senate staff spend four years crafting their report without interviewing a single one of them. Now these former directors, deputy directors, and senior officials break their silence. They present official minority responses and CIA rebuttals the public never saw. Each essay reveals what really happened inside America's most secretive agency during its most controversial program. The stakes couldn't be higher as these intelligence veterans fight to defend their life's work and the operatives who served under them.
Genres: history, politics, non-fiction, military-history
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: unreliable-narrator
Setting: America
Period: 2014
352 pages · Paperback · Naval Institute Press
Content warnings: torture