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.
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.
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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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