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The Reporter genre: Drama Cast: Adam Driver, Corey Stoll, Evander Duck Jr., Jon Hamm, Linda Powell, Annette BeningIdealistic Senate staffer Daniel J. Jones, ...
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The Report is a political drama directed by Scott Z. Burns. Adam Driver stars as Daniel J. Jones, a Senate staffer tasked with investigating the CIA's use of torture after 9/11. Annette Bening co-stars as Senator Dianne Feinstein, who oversees Jones's work. Movies.
Jan 1, 2024 · The Journalist (2019) Michihito Fujii’s imperfect yet well-intentioned investigative thriller unfolds very much in the tradition of 1970s American thrillers. Based on the 2017 book by newspaper journalist Isoko Mochizuki, The Journalist shows the alarming extent modern elected governments can go to preserve their influence and power.
Nov 15, 2019 · The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found to be brutal, immoral and ineffective. With the truth at stake, Jones battled tirelessly to make public what many in power sought to keep hidden.
- What Did The “Torture Report” find?
- How Did The Torture Report Come Together?
- What Happened After The Events Depicted in The Report?
Jones and his team found that between 2002 and 2008, at least 119 detainees were held by the CIA in covert locations around the world, known as “black sites.” The CIA admitted at least 26 of the detainees were “wrongfully” held. According to the Committee’s executive summary, “interrogations of CIA detainees were brutal and far worse than the CIA r...
The tapes investigation
The investigation into the CIA’s interrogation program began in 2007, when the New YorkTimes reportedthat the CIA had destroyed tapes of interrogations in 2005. Two years before Feinstein became Jones’ boss, West Virginia Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller was the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and he asked Jones to review the CIA documents to determine what was on the tapes. Before working for Sen. Rockefeller, Jones had been an FBI analyst in the International Terrorism Oper...
The larger investigation into the CIA interrogation and detention program
In March 2009, in response to Jones’ report, the Committee voted14-to-1 to launch a larger investigation into the CIA’s detention and interrogation program. Sen. Feinstein had become the Chairman of the Committee at this point, and asked Jones to stay on to head up the investigation. He was initially told it would take about a year to complete. Around the same time, Attorney General Eric Holder announced he was broadening a criminal investigation into the CIA, and as a result, the CIA said th...
“The summer from hell”
Sen. Feinstein sent the report for comment and review by the CIA, other intelligence agencies and the White House. In June 2013, the Committee heard back that the CIA had major problems with the report and claimed it contained inaccuracies. Over the summer, Jones and his team began meeting with the CIA to work through these sections. Jones describes the period as the “summer of hell.” “We knew what the facts were and we would basically say, you know, ‘The ocean water is blue. Here it is.’ And...
The film ends in 2014, after the Senate releases Jones’ findings. But the issues it explores persist in the present day. In 2015, the Senate passedthe McCain-Feinstein Anti-Torture Amendment, which banned any further use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” on detainees. In the spring of 2018, Gina Haspel — who, per the Times, oversaw the torture...
Sep 30, 2024 · Featuring a diverse array of movies that spotlight the relentless pursuit of truth and the ethical dilemmas faced by journalists, this collection offers a definitive guide to the best films in the genre.
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