Buried Treasure: "Inside Daniel Jones' torture report"

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Former US Senate Investigator Daniel J. Jones joins Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on Skullduggery's "Buried Treasure." They discuss in great detail the investigation into the CIA's use of torture in the wake of the September 11 attacks. The report, now a major motion picture, showcases Adam Driver in the role of Jones. A bevy of inside from the man who lived through it all on this episode.

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0:00.0	I'm Michael Isgov, Chief Investigator of Correspondent for Yahoo News.
0:03.0	And I'm Dan Clyde, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News.
0:05.3	And a quick reminder that you can follow us at SkullDuggeryPod.
0:09.9	And by the way, if you've got any questions, thoughts, ideas you want to share,
0:14.1	tweet right at us. Now let's get on with the show.
0:18.3	As far as we can tell, everything they attribute to EITs they already had,
0:22.4	from other sources, from foreign governments, from other methods.
0:26.5	They claim they saved lives, but what they really did was make it impossible
0:29.9	to prosecute a mass murderer like KSM, because if what we did to him,
0:34.2	ever came out in the court of law, the case is over.
0:37.0	The guy planned 9-11. And instead of going to jail for the rest of his life,
0:41.4	the CIA turned him into a recruiting tool for a war we're still fighting.
0:49.6	Stop meeting with them.
0:51.2	This is a remarkable document you've created.
1:01.5	Truly. It will provide an enduring history,
1:06.7	whether it comes out or not.
1:10.0	Whether it comes out or not, those are the words of actress Annette Benning,
1:14.0	playing California Senator Diane Feinstein in the report. A new movie that tells the
1:19.2	gripping story of a landmark senate investigation that documented the enhanced interrogation techniques
1:25.9	used by the CIA in the aftermath of 9-11. Techniques that when exposed were widely seen as
1:32.8	amounting to torture. The impassioned young man she's talking to in that scene,
1:37.6	played by actor Adam Driver, is Daniel Jones, a senate staffer who oversaw the years long inquiry
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