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INS special forum : the US senate select committee report on the cia's detention and interrogation program / Phythian, Mark

Phythian, Mark	Article
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n December 2014, the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) released a summary report of its investigation into the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) Detention and Interrogation Program during the ‘war on terror’.1 This amounted to less than a tenth of the full report2 – which remains classified – yet represented the culmination of one of the most contentious investigations in the history of the SSCI, into one of the controversial episodes in the history of the CIA.

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INS Special Foru ; US Senate Select Committee Report ; CIA's Detention ; Interrogation Program

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Partners in crime: an empirical evaluation of the cia rendition, detention, and interrogation program / Schmidt, Averell

Schmidt, Averell	Journal Article
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In the years following the attacks of 9/11, the CIA adopted a program involving the capture, extraordinary rendition, secret detention, and harsh interrogation of suspected terrorists in the war on terror. As the details of this program have become public, a heated debate has ensued, focusing narrowly on whether or not this program “worked” by disrupting terror plots and saving American lives. By embracing such a narrow view of the program’s efficacy, this debate has failed to take into account the broader consequences of the CIA program. We move beyond current debates by evaluating the impact of the CIA program on the human rights practices of other states. We show that collaboration in the CIA program is associated with a worsening in the human rights practices of authoritarian countries. This finding illustrates how states learn from and influence one another through covert security cooperation and the importance of democratic institutions in mitigating the adverse consequences of the CIA program. This finding also underscores why a broad perspective is critical when assessing the consequences of counterterrorism policies.

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Crime ; Detention ; Interrogation Program ; CIA Rendition

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