Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Torture Report A Graphic Adaptation by Sid Jacobson The Torture Report. The world’s #1 eTextbook reader for students. VitalSource is the leading provider of online textbooks and course materials. More than 15 million users have used our Bookshelf platform over the past year to improve their learning experience and outcomes. With anytime, anywhere access and built-in tools like highlighters, flashcards, and study groups, it’s easy to see why so many students are going digital with Bookshelf. titles available from more than 1,000 publishers. customer reviews with an average rating of 9.5. digital pages viewed over the past 12 months. institutions using Bookshelf across 241 countries. The Torture Report A Graphic Adaptation 1st Edition by Sid Jacobson and Publisher Nation Books. Save up to 80% by choosing the eTextbook option for ISBN: 9781568585765, 1568585764. The print version of this textbook is ISBN: 9781568585758, 1568585756. The Torture Report A Graphic Adaptation 1st Edition by Sid Jacobson and Publisher Nation Books. Save up to 80% by choosing the eTextbook option for ISBN: 9781568585765, 1568585764. The print version of this textbook is ISBN: 9781568585758, 1568585756. ourmaninboston. A number of our 17 security agencies (aka as the secret police) are enjoying a rare moment of approval as they actually support the conclusion that the Russians interfered in the 2016 presidential election. However, before you start to view the CIA and NSA as benign, warm and cuddly entities consider the overlooked report of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (always a troubling word) released a few years ago on the popular subject, torture. “Meticulously formatted, this is a highly readable edition of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation of Central Intelligence Agency interrogation and detention programs launched in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Based on over six million internal CIA documents, the report details secret prisons, prisoner deaths, interrogation practices, and cooperation with other foreign and domestic agencies. It also examines charges that the CIA deceived elected officials and governmental overseers about the extent and legality of its operations. Over five years in the making, and withheld from public view since its declassification in April, 2014, this is the full summary report as finally released by the United States government on December 9th, 2014.” The Dark Side: How The War on Terror Became a War on American Ideals” Jane Mayer, who writes about counterterrorism for The New Yorker , offers , “The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals,” reveals more details of about its secret detention program—iIncluding the intragovernmental debates on this efficacy of this program. After September 11, 2001 Vice President Dick Cheney (in an interview with Tim Russert on “Meet the Press.” describes the Bush regime’s rationale—on the continuing threat and US response, “We’ll have to work sort of the dark side if you will. We’ve got to spend time in the shadows in the intelligence world. A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies… if we are going to be successful. That’s the world these folks operate in. And, uh, so it’s going to be vital for us to use any means at our disposal basically, to achieve our objectives.” “Since 2001 Jane Mayer has been investigating and reporting on what the dark side really means. For the first time, she pieces together the full story of how Cheney, and a handful of extraordinarily powerful, but almost unknown lawyers including his Chief of Staff David Addington, took command of the war on terrorism. They seized on the mood of national fear to institute a top secret, covert program that twisted or ignored 221 years of constitutional history. She chronicles the behind-the-scenes meetings in the White House, Justice Department and CIA, and shows how the decisions taken behind closed doors in Washington spiraled out around the world, often with unintended consequences, violated the Constitution…” Jane Mayer introduces this iteration of the Torture Report. “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.” 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 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 Colón use their graphic-storytelling abilities to make the torture report accessible, Their adaptation adds to the original Senate report. There are brief chapters on how the CIA, Congress and the Justice Department responded to the committee’s report and how the media represented the program while it was classified. Explaining the significance and possible aftermath of the CIA program are an introduction by Jane Mayer and an afterword by Scott Horton. Horton points out, “The experience of Latin America is instructive. “Practices like those used by the CIA were hidden, covered with national security classifications, and amnestied in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, among other nations. It took a full generation — thirty years — before a formal process of accountability began to take hold and octogenarian intelligence officers were dragged before courts and sent to prison.” Comments 2 Comments Categories Uncategorized. Books, Books and more Books… Let me reiterate something I have noted in the past—this, to justify my resorting to the creation and promulgation of a list— which I have also said before, is the main trick of lazy journalists. Oh yeah, if you are familiar either with European literary journals or the late lamented Wisława Szymborska’s splendid little tome Non-REquired Reading you are aware that those journals list books that they receive— a number usually far greater than can be reviewed (or that fussy critics would deign to comment on). Seems like a useful thing to list, right? Since I am exactly in that position I am pleased to occasionally publish an idiosyncratic and arbitrary enumeration of recently received books such as the one that follows.The arbitrary part of this public service ia the links that attach to some of the book noted. Some because i have spoken to the author—some because I have previously commented on something to do with said tome.And some links because, well, it’s the right thing to do. David Hockney: The Biography by Christopher Simon Sykes (Doubleday) Peace, They Say: A History of the Nobel Peace Prize, the Most Famous and Controversial Prize in the World by Jay Nordlinger (Encounter Books) The Short American Century: A Postmortem by Andrew Bacevich(Editor) (Harvard University Press) The Recipe Project: A Delectable Extravaganza of Food and Music by Leigh Newman (Black Balloon Publishing) Everything Is an Afterthought: The Life and Writings of Paul Nelson byKevin Avery, Nick Tosches (Foreword) (Fantagraphics) The Life of Charles Dickens: The Illustrated Edition [Abridged] by John Forster, Dr. Holly Furneaux PhD, Jane Smiley (Foreword) (Sterling Signature) Government Issue: Comics for the People, 1940s-2000s by Richard Graham , Sid Jacobson (Foreword)(Abrams ComicArts) How the Dog Became the Dog: From Wolves to Our Best Friends by Mark Derr (Overlook) A People’s Guide to Los Angeles by Laura Pulido, Laura Barraclough , Wendy Cheng (University of California Press) Herbert Eugene Bolton: Historian of the American Borderlands by Albert L. Hurtado (University of California Press ) No One is Here Except All of Us by Ramona Ausubel (Riverhead) Jewish Art: A Modern History by Samantha Baskind, Larry Silver(Reaktion Books) Richard Benson: North South East West by Peter Galassi,Richard Benson(Author Photographer)(The Museum of Modern Art, New York) Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives by Elizabeth Benedict (State University Press of New York) Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series by Sarah Bancroft(The Museum of Modern Art, New York) Cindy Sherman by Eva Respini (Author), Johanna Burton (Author), Cindy Sherman (Photographer), John Waters (Contributor)(The Museum of Modern Art, New York) Darwin’s Devices: What Evolving Robots Can Teach Us About the History of Life and the Future of Technology by John Long (Basic Books) The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard by Joe Brainard, Ron Padgett (Editor), Paul Auster (Foreword)(Library of America) The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table by Tracie McMillan (Scribner) What Color Is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Raymond Obstfeld (Author), Ben Boos (Illustrator), A.G. Ford (Illustrator) (Candlewick) Walter De Maria: Trilogies by Josef Helfenstein (Editor), Clare Elliott (Contributor)(Yale University Press) Graphic Design: A New History , second edition by Stephen J. Eskilson (Yale University Press) The Hammer Vault by Marcus Hearn (Titan Books) Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008 by John Leonard, E. L. Doctorow (Introduction) (Viking) This Will Have Been: Art, Love, and Politics in the 1980s by Helen Molesworth (Yale University Press) David Goodis: Five Noir Novels of the 1940s and 50s by David Goodis, Robert Polito (Editor)(Library of America) The Unexpected Guest by Anne Korkeakivi (Little, Brown and Company) Seeing the Light: Inside the Velvet Underground by Rob Jovanovic(St. Martin’s Press) Herb Ritts: L.A. Style by Paul Martineau (Author), James Crump (Contributor) (J.