{"product_id":"2940149894147","title":"Senate Select Committee on Intelligence","description":"On April 3, 2014, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence voted to send the Findings and Conclusions and the Executive Summary of its final Study on the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program to the President for declassification and subsequent public release.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis action marked the culmination of a monumental effort that officially began with the Committee's decision to initiate the Study in March 2009, but which had its roots in an investigation into the CIA's destruction of videotapes of CIA detainee interrogations that began in December 2007.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe full Committee Study, which totals more than 6,700 pages, remains classified but is now an official Senate report. The full report has been provided to the White House, the CIA, the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, the Department of State, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in the hopes that it will prevent future coercive interrogation practices and inform the management of other covert action programs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the Chairman of the Committee since 2009, I write to offer some additional views, context, and history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI began my service on the Senate Intelligence Committee in January 2001. I remember testimony that summer from George Tenet, the Director of Central Intelligence, that warned of a possible major terrorist event against the United States, but without specifics on the time, location, or method of attack. On September 11, 2001, the world learned the answers to those questions that had consumed the CIA and other parts of the U.S. Intelligence Community.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI recall vividly watching the horror of that day, to include the television footage of innocent men and women jumping out of the World Trade Center towers to escape the fire. The images, and the sounds as their bodies hit the pavement far below, will remain with me for the rest of my life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is against that backdrop - the largest attack against the American homeland in our history - that the events described in this report were undertaken.","brand":"Supremus Group LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47073066516720,"sku":"2940149894147","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149894147_p0.jpg?v=1763726048","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149894147","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}