History of harsh interrogation techniques president obama announced tuesday that he would ask his attorney general to determine whether anyone from the bush administration broke the law. Anatomy of interrogation themes the reid technique of interviewing and interrogation second edition on. It comes up with many different methods to separate concepts of police manipulation. The bush administration referred to these methods as enhanced interrogation techniques. All of that already seems like such ancient history, especially as the first hints of the trump era begin to appear, one in which torture, black sites, extraordinary rendition, and so much more. In this essay, benjamin farley argues that by relying on military necessity, defenders of enhanced interrogation techniques are actually relying on kriegsraison. Anatomy of interrogation themes the reid technique of interviewing and interrogation second edition. The primary story arc of fallons insiders tale is that he warned people at gtmo that interrogation techniques such as air conditioning, noise, shouting, and interrupted sleep were a problem for. Enhanced interrogation inside the mind and motives of the islamic terrorists trying to destroy america by james e mitchel, phd.
The book addresses techniques for interviewing children and the mentally challenged, and offers information about preemployment interviews. Mitchell admitted his role in the program to vice news in 2014, but his book, which will be released tuesday, is his comprehensive. There are of course seriousminded critics of enhanced interrogation techniques. Unlike the methods shown in the movie rendition and used in countries such as syria, egypt and morocco, the forms of interrogation used by the united states are carefully honed methods of. Many notable thinkers are, and will continue to be, involved in the debate over the use of eits. Criminal interrogations and confessions, fifth edition presents the reid technique of interviewing and interrogation and is the standard used in the field. How to interrogate terrorists treating terrorists with. Invited to testify as a top secret informant before congress, she reveals agency shenanigans observed over the past two decades as a covert parttime field agent. Though they showed the sadism of a prison out of control, they showed nothing about interrogation. Jayne this is the first book of its kind on the market. Given the swift and harsh condemnations of cia interrogation tactics, the. Anatomy of interrogation themes the reid technique of. This updated fifth edition presents interviewing and interrogation techniques, based on actual criminal cases, which have been used successfully by thousands of criminal investigators.
Before the discussion concluded, however, the photos of prisoner abuse in iraqs abu ghraib prison appeared. It provides practical guidelines for electronically recording interviews and interrogations in addition to specific guidelines that will help insure that your interrogation and confession will stand up to the scrutiny of a judge, jury, defense or prosecuting attorney. Enhanced interrogation, the report on rendition, detention. Senate intelligence committee study on cia detention and. Effective interviewing and interrogation techniques consists of fairly a couple of illustrations and footage to strengthen the readers understanding along with model worksheets and varieties along with. Enhanced interrogation, the report on rendition, detention, and. Enhanced interrogation techniques or enhanced interrogation is a euphemism for the. Gina haspels cia torture file national security archive. Farley last years release of the senate select committee on intelligences report. A major aspect of the cias detention and interrogation operations has been purposefully hidden from view, primarily due to secrecy guidelines that make it illegal for anyone to read. The trump administrations nominee to be cia director, gina haspel, personally supervised the torture of a cia detainee in 2002 leading to at least three waterboard sessions, subsequently drafted the cable that ordered destruction of the videotape evidence of torture, and served as a senior cia official while the agency was lying to itself, presidents george w.
Extraordinary rendition and torture what the narratives of victims. The true story of the cia torture program and millions of other. Effective interviewing and interrogation techniques pdf. At the one year mark, however, the issue seems conspicuously absent.
Cia during extraordinary renditions the secret transfer of interrogation. Books how to identify, interview and motivate child abuse offenders to tell the truth 2nd edition a field guide to the reid technique anatomy of interrogation themes spanish anatomy of interrogation themes, 2nd edition criminal interrogations and confessions 5th edition electronic recording of interrogations. Getting away with torture the bush administration and mistreatment of detainees summary recommendations. This is a description of the cias rendition, detention, and interrogation program, and its perhaps the most significant document to come out of the foia, says abdo. Coercive interrogation techniques 662 words 3 pages. Armed forces at black sites around the world, including bagram, guantanamo bay, and abu ghraib, authorized by officials of the george w. The two psychologists who designed the us enhanced interrogation programme that included waterboarding and other forms of torture are due to give evidence in open court for the first time. Torture, rendition, and indefinite detention became the order of the day. The cia renounced the harsh interrogation techniques in 2009, and the. And is more the style of a pamphlet, i would estimate. This book deserves a wide readership and should, but probably wont, stimulate some serious national soul searching. The new edition will place added emphasis on the interview process and the requisite skills of the interviewer.
Enhanced interrogation techniques included walling quickly pulling the detainee forward and then thrusting him against a flexible false wall, water dousing, waterboarding, stress positions forcing the detainee to remain in body positions designed to induce physical discomfort, wall standing forcing the detainee to remain standing with his arms outstretched in. The report from the senate intelligence committee on the cias interrogation techniques after the attacks of sept. The committee study of the central intelligence agencys detention and interrogation program is a report compiled by the bipartisan united states senate select committee on intelligence ssci about the central intelligence agency cias detention and interrogation program and its use of various forms of enhanced interrogation techniques in u. Bush and dick cheney launched their forever wars under the banner of a global war on terror they unleashed an unholy trinity of tactics. Foia documents related to the former detention and interrogation program 6541720 rippub 4 june. Bombshell report on cia interrogations is leaked law. Fallon keeps mentioning that enhanced interrogation techniques are all. Senate intelligence committee report on cia torture.
Mark fallons book, unjustifiable means, purports to be an expose but only. A link to the article is posted on the extraordinary rendition page. An august, 2007, story by jane mayer in the new yorker reported that the cia has operated black site secret prisons by the direct presidential order of george w. The book also covers interview and interrogation preparation, as well as question formulation. The sixth chapter provides an opportunity to apply the inquiry and persuasion techniques developed in previous chapters to the transcript of an actual interview.
The cias extraordinary rendition programme, through which individuals allegedly suspected of terrorism would be kidnapped and whisked off to secret interrogation centres known as black sites, has recently been revisited in mainstream media through a series of illustrations by a prisoner held in guantanamos camp 7. The release included redacted versions of the committees executive summary and findings and conclusions, as well as additional and minority views. Bush since shortly after 911, and that extreme psychological interrogation measures based at least partially on the vietnamera phoenix program were used on detainees. Enhanced interrogation techniques or enhanced interrogation is a euphemism for the u. The book sells itself as a history of cia interrogation practices and abuses. But taking anything into consideration, then this short book is very helpful to understand the manipulation within a typical interrogation interview. The central intelligence agencys use of enhanced interrogation techniques was not an effective means of acquiring intelligence or gaining cooperation from detainees, a senate report claims. But to pretend, as some critics do, that the morality of this issue is selfevident and that waterboarding and other coercive interrogation techniques are obviously unacceptable and something for which our nation should be ashamed is, in my judgment, not only wrong but irresponsible. The interrogation techniques used by military standards. George tenet asked if he had permission to use enhanced interrogation techniques. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read effective interviewing and interrogation techniques.
Code name verity by elizabeth wein, heart of midnight by kimberly zant, made to be broken by lyra byrnes, screwged by mad. After a partial suspension of these policies in the obama years, they now appear poised for resurrection. In his book, guantanamo diary, that describes his ordeal as a victim of the torture program. In practice, the term is widely used to describe such practices, particularly the initial apprehension. If they wanted to torture and detain people beyond what any conceivable interpretation of us law, even in guantanamo, could allow, they were going to do it. The solution, they found, was extraordinary rendition, a program where continue reading 20 facts about extraordinary rendition, torture. Were stress techniques such as isolation or sleep deprivation to decrease a detainees resistance to questioningacceptable. Creator of cia torture techniques testifies at guantanamo. Morality and enhanced interrogation techniques ethics. A book on the enhanced interrogation program that tortures. Extraordinary rendition is a 2007 drama film directed by jim threapleton and starring omar berdouni and andy serkis, known for his role in the lord of the rings. A book on the enhanced interrogation program that tortures the. Extraordinary rendition and the absence of culpability. A question of torture is a lucid exposure of an evil open secret and of the skeins of denial and justification swaddling it.
Consent varieties, forensic analysis interview technique sort, numerical evaluation sort, sample confession, and a preemployment security. The task force that recommended the modified transfer policy was set up in january to study changes in rendition and interrogation policies under. Given president trumps enthusiasm, as a presidential candidate, for enhanced interrogation, waterboarding, torture, and worse, as well as his eagerness to contrast himself at every opportunity with president obama, one might have expected to see the use of such methods reinstated after he became president. Effective interviewing and interrogation techniques. Mccoy begins with a dated but insightful and readable book on the cias involvement in researching and utilizing interrogation methods both traditional and controversial. Declassified documents now reveal there were two cia. Says rendition to continue, but with more oversight. It discusses the morgan interview theme technique or mitt, and the forensic assessment interview or faint. Cia extraordinary rendition and detention program authors note. This is a book about renditions, a completely secretive element of the us govt in its. President barack obama banned enhanced interrogation techniques in 2009, and the senate intelligence committee released a scathing report on the cia program, using code names for mitchell and jessen, in 2014.