Related: Remember The Titans True Story: What The Movie Gets Right & ChangesĪs detailed in The Report, Jones and Feinstein were then required to send their findings to the CIA for review. With no outside help, Jones's team completed the 6,700-page document in 2012. Like The Report shows, this barred anyone within the agency from speaking to Jones or his team and it was at that point that the Republicans pulled their support. As shown in the movie, Jones was told that it should only take about a year to complete.ĭuring this time, Attorney General Eric Holder had announced that he was broadening his own criminal investigation into the CIA. He produced his first findings two years later in 2009, before getting the go-ahead to move forward with the investigation. As the elected leader of the report, Jones, a former FBI analyst in the International Terrorism Operations Section, dove into CIA records. It wasn't until 2007, when The New York Times reported that the CIA had destroyed tapes of the interrogations two years earlier, that the Senate officially launched their investigation.

Despite the ferocious legal battle that emerged between the CIA and the head of the Senate's investigation committee, Senator Feinstein, Jones' report was finally released to the public on Decem the senator called the program 'a stain on our values and on our history.'Īs portrayed in the film, these horrific acts went under the radar for an extensive period of time. The film reenacts Jones' painstaking, five-to-seven-year process of data collection and analysis. And the result, as detailed in Jones' 6,700+ word torture report, showed not only that these practices were bred by malicious intent, but that they were incredibly ineffective as well.

The extent to what 'enhanced' meant was truly horrendous: waterboarding, sleep deprivation, freezing conditions, and tight-space confinement, among others. Morally duped and frankly embarrassed by the weight of the country's most disastrous terrorist attack, the Central Intelligence Agency authorized the use of EITs – 'enhanced interrogation techniques' – to pry any sort of information out of dozens of detainees.

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