RECAP: Daniel J. Jones joins Alberto J. Mora for Screening and Discussion of “The Report”


Daniel J. Jones, lead investigator for the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) enhanced interrogation program, joined Alberto J. Mora, American Bar Association's (ABA) Associate Executive Director for Global Programs, for a special screening of The Report on the evening of December 12th.

Mora elaborates on an audience question alongside Jones. 

Released in November 2019, the film follows the journey of Jones (played by Adam Driver) who dedicated seven years of his life to the 7,000 page report on the CIA's use of torture. The public would later only see a redacted-500 page version released on December 9, 2014, thirteen years after the 9/11 Al-Qaeda attacks.The report focused on the torture of detainees who the CIA believed had possible links to Al-Qaeda.

After the screening at the ABA DC office, Mora and Jones discussed their experiences related to the investigation, and shared their input in the film’s development. In a recent article, Director of The Report Scott Z. Burns mentioned Mora’s important feedback on the film, and his role in the investigation as “...the general counsel for the Navy who stood up against [the torture] program.” From 2001-05, Mora served as “general counsel (chief legal officer) of the Navy and Marine Corps (2001-05) with management responsibility for over 800 attorneys and personnel across 146 offices throughout the United States and overseas. In that role, he also served as the department’s chief ethics officer.” In 2006, Mora received the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for his opposition to “the abusive interrogation of detainees held at the Guantánamo Bay base.” 

Jones responds to an audience question about his interrogative and research strategy that focused on the identity of 119 detainees.  

Learn more about the The Report at thereport.movie.

An audience member asks a question during Q & A. 
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After a two-year investigation into the 2005 destruction of the CIA interrogation videotapes and further information detailing the torture of CIA-detainees Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the Senate Intelligence Committee launched a much broader investigation into the CIA’s use of enhanced interrogation techniques (EITs) on the detainees in black sites around the world. As a then-staffer of Senator Dianne Feinstein, Chairman of the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Jones led the seven year-investigation to uncover the truth, including analysis of 6.3 million pages of CIA classified documents. 



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