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His book on the central intelligence agencys interrogation program. But for two decades carle broke laws, stole, and lied on a daily basis about nearly everything. The interrogator is the story of carles most serious assignment, when he was surged to become an interrogator in the u. He is a former cia case officer and author of the book, the interrogator. Former cia officers teach you how to persuade anyone. Former interrogator says cias techniques amounted to torture. A former cia interrogator says he was asked to resign from his college teaching post in erie, pennsylvania after newsweek magazine ran a feature article about him. A former military interrogator, he is a strong opponent of. So controversial is carles book that, for the past two years, the former cia agent has been involved in a legal battle with the cia, which has. An education, which has been called the greatest nonfiction book ever written about the cia. The interrogator grabs the detainee by the collar with two hands and pulls him closer, according to a description of the technique by former cia acting general counsel john rizzo in his book. Written by the former cia operative who interrogated pacha wazir, the man the cia rendered in 2002 for allegedly being bin ladens banker, this book chronicles the journey of a deeply committed, patriotic man who slowly comes to realize that his beloved agency has rendered a largely innocent man, refuses to acknowledge or correct its mistake. Sep 09, 2015 former cia leaders release book defending brutal tactics ken dilanian september 9, 2015 gmt the book, titled rebuttal, takes aim at the senate intelligence committee report released last year that revealed gruesome details of the oncesecret cia program while portraying it as ineffective, incompetently run, and rife with misrepresentations. Former cia leaders release book defending brutal tactics ken dilanian september 9, 2015 gmt the book, titled rebuttal, takes aim at the senate intelligence committee report released last year that revealed gruesome details of the oncesecret cia program while portraying it as ineffective, incompetently run, and rife with misrepresentations.

Then, in a dramatic twist, headquarters spirited the detainee and carle to the cia s harshest interrogation facility, a place of darkness and fear, which even cia officers only dared mention in whispers. Former interrogator says cia s techniques amounted to torture robert siegel talks to tony camerino, author of how to break a terrorist. Despite the continued outcry in the united states over torture, especially waterboarding, a new international poll of those in war torn nations shows growing. Former cia leaders release book defending interrogation. A former military interrogator unearths the errors and. Soufan, an arabicspeaking fbi interrogator, dispels the myth that al qaeda. Fbi gets an unexpected lesson from a former interrogator. An education 2011, which describes his involvement in the interrogation of a man at the time believed to be one of the top members of alqaida. Get the truth, a new book by three former cia officers, explains how to. Former cia leaders release book defending brutal interrogations. He decided to write a book about it and has spent the past year and a half trying to get his story out. Do you think these issues of torture and enhanced interrogation look different from the inside or the outside.

Distilled, that story, told in carles new memoir the interrogator, is this. National security, intelligence, and interrogation. Jun 10, 2016 fbi gets an unexpected lesson from a former interrogator for the nazis. Sep 09, 2015 former cia interrogator philip houston is telling the story of a colleague who arrived at the airport for a muchneeded vacation, only to discover that the clerk at checkin wanted paper tickets. Both books were written under the pseudonym matthew alexander.

Former cia leaders release book defending brutal tactics. Waterboarding may be a harsh interrogation method, but it is not torture and it does work in rare occasions, according to a former central intelligence agency interrogator. Carle weighs what he sees as the corrosive effect of. It details his involvement in the interrogation of a member of alqaida.

Sep 09, 2015 the book, titled rebuttal, takes aim at the senate intelligence committee report released last year that revealed gruesome details of the oncesecret cia program while portraying it as. He is a former cia case officer, with extensive experience in source handling and source networks, specializing in counterterrorism issues. Former cia officers teach you how to persuade anyone to tell all philip. A book about the experiences of a cia interrogator as he navigates the maze of. Inside the minds and motives of the islamic terrorists trying to destroy america is a firsthand account of the cias controversial interrogation program which most famously included such techniques as waterboarding by one of its architects, psychologist james mitchell, who also served as an interrogator, and former cia spokesman bill harlow. Jul 21, 2015 former cia interrogator philip houston is telling the story of a colleague who arrived at the airport for a muchneeded vacation, only to discover that the clerk at checkin wanted paper tickets. He is the author of the command and general staff college foundation presss inaugural book, the fight for the high ground. On megyn kelly today, former cia interrogator phil houston, one of the authors of the book spy the lie, explains how to spot a liar, saying one of the first tells is aggression. A former cia interrogator says he was asked to resign from his college teaching post in erie, pennsylvania after newsweek magazine ran a feature article about him earlier this month david. It is the confession of former covert operative glenn carle, who spent almost two decades working undercover and was charged with interrogating one of the highest profile alqaida detainees since 911. Glenn carle is an american writer and former intelligence officer. In the months after 911, the cia kidnaps a suspected senior member of alqaida and takes him to a mideast country for. Dec 28, 2016 we speak to former cia analyst john nixon, author of the new book, debriefing the president.

Former cia officials have defended the rough techniques as useful, but a 2014 senate report found that the agencys use. A former military interrogator, he is a strong opponent of the techniques. A chapter about highprofile situations was significantly. Cia interrogation tactics you can use at home chicago tribune. Washington former senior cia officials instrumental in extracting information from al qaeda prisoners through what most americans consider to have been torture have published a book defending. The cia was the tip of the spear in the months after the sept. James mitchell was contracted by the cia in 2002 to develop socalled enhanced interrogation techniques to be used on captured terrorists, which included waterboarding. Former cia contractor defends brutal post911 interrogations. Written by the former cia operative who interrogated pacha wazir, the man the cia rendered in 2002 for allegedly being bin ladens banker, this book chronicles the journey of a deeply committed, patriotic man who slowly comes to realize that his beloved. Carle tells the story from inside the cias war on terror and he does it with great honesty and realism. A haunting tale of sadness, confusion, and determination, the interrogator is a shocking and intimate look at the world of espionage. We speak to former cia analyst john nixon, author of the new book, debriefing the president. Dec 16, 2016 nixon was a cia analyst from 1998 to 2011 and has taught leadership analysis for the agency at its sherman kent school.

Former cia agent reveals secret prison torture details. Nixon was a cia analyst from 1998 to 2011 and has taught leadership analysis for the agency at its sherman kent school. I was almost never who i said i was, or did what i claimed to be. Global war on terror, and assigned to interrogate a toplevel detainee at one of the cias notorious black sites overseas. Phil houston is here, former cia interrogator and polygraph expert and the ceo of qverity. Dec 09, 2014 attention grasp the interrogator grabs the detainee by the collar, with two hands, and pulls him closer in, according to a description of the technique by former cia acting general counsel. The book, titled rebuttal, takes aim at the senate intelligence committee report released last year that revealed gruesome details of the. Former cia officers teach you how to persuade anyone to tell all houston, philip, floyd, michael, carnicero, susan, romary, peter on. A list of the enhanced interrogation techniques used by.

Carle, a former cia intelligence officer, was surged to become an interrogator and sent to one of the agencys secret overseas facilities. This memoir describes how deforest, a cia interrogation officer in. It is a valuable addition to their excellent first book, spy the lie. We allowed the cia to destroy tapes of interrogations that. Former cia officer on how to get the truth from anyone fox news. A new book by former cia officials defends the agencys use of brutal interrogation measures after the terrorist attacks on the united states that occurred on sept. Because what appears to work best is an interrogator who chats on and on, quietly. But for two decades carle broke laws, stole, and lied on a daily basis about nearly.

Mitchell admitted his role in the program to vice news in 2014, but his book, which will be released tuesday, is his comprehensive. Yeah, and then the story that you revealed is about barry mcmanus, this is the former cia interrogator. Theres nothing an interrogator could say to me that would be new. A former cia interrogator on death, torture and the dark side by jeff stein and adam zagorin on 100715 at 6. Public embracing war torture, excia interrogator says it. It tells of his encounter with one of the most senior alqaida detainees the u. Written by the former cia operative who interrogated pacha wazir, the man the cia rendered in 2002 for allegedly being bin ladens banker, this book chronicles the journey of a deeply committed, patriotic man who slowly. Former cia interrogator philip houston is telling the story of a colleague who arrived at the airport for a muchneeded vacation, only to discover that the clerk at checkin wanted paper tickets. A new guide from some former intelligence agents promises to train you to elicit the truth from targets such as the plumber or your own. Former cia officials release book defending agency interrogations. Former interrogator says cias techniques amounted to torture robert siegel talks to tony camerino, author of how to break a terrorist. Excia interrogator trains ice agents in counterterrorism.

He was in the agency for twenty years, he retired in 2003. Sep 29, 2017 on megyn kelly today, former cia interrogator phil houston, one of the authors of the book spy the lie, explains how to spot a liar, saying one of the first tells is aggression. Excia interrogator on enhanced interrogation bbc news. I want to call this book incredible but im afraid that word choice might lend the wrong connotation, as it could hardly get more credible. A former military interrogator unearths the errors and fear. We speak to former cia analyst john nixon, author of the new book, debriefing. His interrogator, a longserving cia agent named glenn carle, thinks the man is far from a terrorist mastermind, but a bewildered halfwit. Feinstein details brutal cia torture tactics nbc news. Former cia officials release book defending agency. Former cia operative glenn carles memoir, the interrogator.

Sep 08, 2015 a new book by former cia officials defends the agencys use of brutal interrogation measures after the terrorist attacks on the united states that occurred on sept. A cia interrogator gives inside look at the war on terror. The henleyputnam webinar series, launched in 2009, was designed to bring the handson experience of former members of the cia, secret service, fbi, and intelligence and federal law enforcement community to those seeking careers in strategic security. In addition to his intelligence experience, he has law enforcement experience with the us air marshals and the us capitol police, as well as search and rescue experience in the us coast guard. Carle was a wholesome, stereotypical new england yankee, a former athlete struggling against incipient middle age, someone always with his nose in an abstruse book. A conversation with former cia interrogator james mitchell book forum. Sep 09, 2015 washington former senior cia officials instrumental in extracting information from al qaeda prisoners through what most americans consider to have been torture have published a book defending.

A former cia interrogator on death, torture and the dark side. Former cia leaders release book defending brutal interrogation tactics updated jan 09, 2019. Carles handlers tell him the mans silence proves he knows something, and insist enhanced interrogation techniques many would say torture will produce answers. Rodriguez, the former head of the cias counterterrorism center and. President barack obama banned enhanced interrogation techniques in 2009, and the senate intelligence committee released a scathing report on the cia program, using code names for mitchell and jessen, in 2014. Dec 10, 2014 former interrogator says cia s techniques amounted to torture robert siegel talks to tony camerino, author of how to break a terrorist. Invasion, saddam hussein was focused on writing novel, not wmds democracy now.

Cia interrogation tactics you can use at home chicago. Fbi gets an unexpected lesson from a former interrogator for the nazis. A former cia officer explains how to apply interrogation. Former cia officers teach you how to persuade anyone to tell all. Army and interrogation during operation iraqi freedom, may. He writes about his experience in his new book, the. Cias enhanced interrogation program and served as one of their interrogators from its inception. Feinstein details brutal cia torture tactics nbc news duration. James elmer mitchell born 1952 is an american psychologist and former member of the united states air force. Written by the former cia operative who interrogated pacha wazir, the man. A former military interrogator unpacks the errors and fearmongering in marc thiessens courting disaster. Former cia officer on how to get the truth from anyone. Global war on terror, and assigned to interrogate a toplevel detainee at one of the cia s notorious black sites overseas.