Black Banners Declassified - How Torture Derailed the War on Terror after 9/11
Black Banners Declassified - How Torture Derailed the War on Terror after 9/11 Widely heralded on publication as a "must-read" (Military Review) and "important window on America's battle with…
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Black Banners Declassified - How Torture Derailed the War on Terror after 9/11
Widely heralded on publication as a "must-read" (Military Review) and "important window on America's battle with al-Qaeda" (Washington Post), Ali Soufan's revelatory account of the war on terror as seen from its front lines changed the way we understand al-Qaeda and how the United States prosecuted the war--and led to hard questions being asked of our leaders.When The Black Banners was published in 2011, significant portions of the text were redacted. Their removal corrects the record on how vital intelligence was obtained from al-Qaeda suspects and brings forth important new details on the controversial use of enhanced interrogation techniques (torture) to extract information from terror suspects. After subsequent review by the Central Intelligence Agency, those redactions have been lifted.
For many years, proponents of the use of these techniques