The torture report.

AuthorKrayewski, Ed
PositionBrief article - Book review

Sleep deprivation, water dousing, abdominal slaps, dietary manipulation--these were just some of the "enhanced interrogation techniques" mentioned in what's generally known as the 2014 Senate torture report. (It is officially called the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program.) These disturbing practices are described, and often illustrated, in The Torture Report (Nation Books), a comic-book adaptation by writer Sid Jacobson and artist Ernie Colon.

The Senate report clocked in at 6,770 pages, but only a 525-page summary has been released to the public so far. The graphic novel is 113 pages, and provides an important service by making the report more accessible to the general public, with plenty of text but also enough illustrations and narratives to bring alive the stories running through the lawmakers' report.

Those include the stories of the politicians...

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