Intelligence Reporting (with Mark Mazzetti)

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Society & Culture, Politics, Government, News

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🗓️ 12 November 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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This special episode of Stay Tuned is brought to you by the Amazon Original motion picture, The Report. The film tells the story of Daniel Jones, a Senate staffer who investigated the CIA's secret Detention and Interrogation program implemented in the aftermath of 9/11. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mark Mazzetti joins Preet for a wide-ranging discussion that covers his related reporting, interrogation techniques, congressional oversight, and the inherent challenges of the national security news beat. You’ll also hear from Daniel J. Jones himself, who recounts his experience during the production of the film. Enjoy the episode and don’t forget to see The Report in Theaters November 15th and on Prime Video November 29th. Sign up to receive free references and supplemental materials for Stay Tuned episodes, a weekly newsletter, and updates from Preet. As always, tweet your questions to @PreetBharara with hashtag #askpreet, email us at staytuned@cafe.com, or call 699-247-7338 to leave a voicemail. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:57.9	Today's special episode of Stay tuned is brought to you by the Amazon Original Motion Picture,
1:02.9	the report. In addition to a fascinating interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
1:07.4	Mark Mazzetti, you'll hear from Daniel Jones, whose extraordinary story of uncovering the truth
1:11.8	about a CIA interrogation program is told in the film.
1:18.9	From Cafe, welcome to Stay tuned. I'm Pete Barara.
1:22.9	The Senate Intelligence Report on the CIA program said that waterboarding was ineffective
1:28.9	in getting accurate and timely information from the detainees it was used on.
1:33.9	Coming to the conclusion that the waterboarding was not a reason for why they gave up any information
1:38.9	in some cases they gave up misinformation after being waterboarding.
1:43.9	That's Mark Mazzetti. He's a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter and author who covered
1:48.9	the CIA's controversial detention and interrogation program, authorized after 9-11 by the Bush administration.
1:54.9	In 2007, Mazzetti broke the story of the CIA's efforts to destroy tapes documenting enhanced
1:59.9	interrogation tactics on suspected members of al-Qaeda, now understood to be torture, and
2:04.9	Mazzetti's coverage prompted investigations into the intelligence agency's treatment of detainees.
2:08.9	Mazzetti tells me how he gets sources to talk to him, the most effective way to conduct interrogations,
2:13.9	whether members of Congress were aware of the breadth of the CIA's interrogation program,
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