The Senate Intelligence Committee Report On Torture: Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program

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One of the most significant government reports in American history, this is the complete official summary report of the Senate Intelligence Committee's investigation of the Central Intelligence Agency's interrogation and detention programs launched in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Releasing this report is an important step to restoring our values and showing the world that we are a just society.' - Senate Intelligence Committee chair Senator Diane Feinstein'

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A Boston Globe Bestseller

This massive chronicle of malfeasance concerns not only the efficacy of certain interrogation techniques, not only the perennial clash between spies and their civilian overseers, but something far more profound: the nations political soul."
Harper's

A high-quality version of the 500-some page report.
John Hockenberry, The Takeaway/WNYC

The most extensive review of U.S. intelligence-gathering tactics in generations.
Los Angeles Times

The Senate intelligence committees report is a landmark in accountability . . . It is one of the most shocking documents ever produced by any modern democracy about its own abuses of its own highest principles.
The Guardian (UK)

Exhaustive . . . Haunting
Washington Post

The small independent publisher Melville House has done it, turning 'a five-hundred-and-twenty-eight-page PDF with the slanted margins and blurred resolution of a Xerox made by a myopic high-school Latin teacher' into a more readable text."
Andrew Sullivan, The Dish

Releasing this report is an important step to restoring our values and showing the world that we are a just society.
Senate Intelligence Committee chair Senator Dianne Feinstein

A portrait of depravity that is hard to comprehend and even harder to stomach.
New York Times

Details the use of gruesome torture techniques used by the CIA and . . . concludes that the agency misled both the White House and Congress."
Christian Science Monitor

I believe the American people have a rightindeed, a responsibilityto know what was done in their name; how these practices did or did not serve our interests; and how they comported with our most important values. I commend Chairman Feinstein and her staff for their diligence in seeking a truthful accounting of policies I hope we will never resort to again.
Senator John McCain

Melville House is betting that there's enough interest in the Torture Report that people will want to have it in book form."
Rachel Maddow, MSNBC

The book business in 2015 is pretty much a crapshoot, but it's hard to believe that even the canniest insider could've predicted the sales success that indie publisher Melville House has had with the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture."
Vulture

A tiny Brooklyn publishing house printed a 50,000-copy run of the Senate torture reportand its flying off shelves faster than The Goldfinch."
Entertainment Weekly

Given the swift and harsh condemnations of CIA interrogation tactics, the Torture Report is sure to top nonfiction charts for months to come mark my words."
Bustle

If you were wondering why it's important that indie presses exist, HERE, THIS IS WHY."
Portland Mercury

Awatershed moment in contemporary publishing."
Flavorwire

Its quite the important and powerful idea: that simply repackaging material can make it more accessible and can perhaps make it lasttruly lastin the way we need to know and remember it."
Ploughshares

[Melville House is] continuing the critical work of publishing important documents."
Shelf Awareness

Small but conscientious Melville [House]is rushing to get the report out promptly."
Library Journal

Author Bio

The United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was created by the U.S. Senate in 1976 as a bipartisan committee responsible for overseeing federal intelligence activities. It is the committee's responsibility to "oversee and make continuing studies of the intelligence activities and programs of the United States Government," to "submit to the Senate appropriate proposals for legislation and report to the Senate concerning such intelligence activities and programs," and to "provide vigilant legislative oversight over the intelligence activities of the United States to assure that such activities are in conformity with the Constitution and laws of the United States."