Black Site: The CIA in the Post-9/11 World

The CIA responded to the fall of the twin towers with a series of regressive actions such as spying on their own populace, opening secret torture centers around the world, and bombing civilians with drones. Philip Mudd, a former director of the CIA Counterterrorist Center, spills the beans about the lengths that the CIA went to pursue al-Qa'ida. By 2014, heated debates about the torture they used broke out in the US Senate, but Mudd argues that important questions were never answered, or even asked. How did the CIA reach their decisions? What did the torture centers look like, and how did prisoners reach them? Using interviews with dozens of officials, many of whom had yet to speak out on the subject, Mudd shows how the CIA's torturous skills could break even the world's most hardened terrorists. 

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