The Torture Report
A Graphic Adaptation
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- $15.99
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
"The more who learn the truth the better off the country will be, because there is no better safeguard against the revival of torture than a well-informed public." -- Jane Mayer, from the Introduction
On December 9, 2014, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released a report that strongly condemned the CIA for its secret and brutal use of torture in the treatment of prisoners captured in the "war on terror" during the George W. Bush administration. This deeply researched and fully documented investigation caused monumental controversy, interest, and concern, and starkly highlighted both how ineffective the program was as well as the lengths to which the CIA had gone to conceal it.
In The Torture Report, Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colóse their celebrated graphic-storytelling abilities to make the damning torture report accessible, finally allowing Americans to lift the veil and fully understand the crimes committed by the CIA.
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An outstanding example of graphic nonfiction, this adaptation of the 2014 report by a Senate committee describes how the CIA abused prisoners to extract information about al-Qaeda. The 9/11 attack was used to justify what was called "enhanced interrogation": waterboarding, sleep deprivation, prolonged nudity, slapping, isolation in short, torture. Whatever one thinks of the morality of this operation, the report clearly shows it proved to be pointless; the only reliable information from the detainees came from timely, nonviolent interrogation, not prolonged physical torment. Jacobson and Colon previously collaborated on other books about the 9/11 report and the war on terror, and Jacobson's thorough summary of a huge amount of material is matched by Colon's art, which vividly contrasts the naked, agonized prisoners and the calm, business-suited CIA administrators trying to spin bureaucratic jargon to hide their lack of success. This is not an enjoyable read, but it's extremely important.
