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Enhanced Interrogation: Inside the Minds and Motives of the Islamic Terrorists Trying To Destroy America Hardcover – November 29, 2016

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In the dark days immediately after 9/11, the CIA turned to Dr. James Mitchell to help craft an interrogation program designed to elicit intelligence from just-captured top al-Qa'ida leaders and terror suspects.

A civilian contractor who had spent years training U.S. military members to resist interrogation should they be captured, Mitchell, aware of the urgent need to prevent impending catastrophic attacks, worked with the CIA to implement "enhanced interrogation techniques"--which included waterboarding.

In Enhanced Interrogation, Mitchell now offers a first-person account of the EIT program, providing a contribution to our historical understanding of one of the most controversial elements of America's ongoing war on terror. Readers will follow him inside the secretive "black sites" and cells of terrorists and terror suspects where he personally applied enhanced interrogation techniques.

Mitchell personally questioned thirteen of the most senior high-value detainees in U.S. custody, including Abu Zubaydah; Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the amir or "commander" of the USS Cole bombing; and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind behind the September 11, 2001, terror attacks--obtaining information that he maintains remains essential to winning the war against al-Qa'ida and informing our strategy to defeat ISIS and all of radical Islam.

From the interrogation program's earliest moments to its darkest hours, Mitchell also lifts the curtain on its immediate effects, the controversy surrounding its methods, and its downfall. He shares his view that EIT, when applied correctly, were useful in drawing detainees to cooperate, and that, when applied incorrectly, they were counter-productive. He also chronicles what it is like to undertake a several-years-long critical mission at the request of the government only to be hounded for nearly a decade afterward by congressional investigations and Justice Department prosecutors.

Gripping in its detail and deeply illuminating, Enhanced Interrogation argues that it is necessary for America to take strong measures to defend itself from its enemies and that the country is less safe now without them than it was before 9/11.

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320 pages
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Crown Forum
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November 29, 2016
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6.38 x 1.28 x 9.52 inches
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9781101906842
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978-1101906842
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If you want to know the details of what happened and make your own decision pick up Enhanced Interrogation. You cannot make a decision on enhanced interrogation until you read this book.
– Brian Kilmeade

“No one has heard from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed since the 9/11 attacks, but James Mitchell has spent countless hours with the terror mastermind at the CIA’s black sites. In this gripping book, Mitchell reveals for the first time, in chilling detail, what KSM and other senior terrorist commanders told him. If you want to understand what drives the Islamic radicals seeking to destroy America—and what they say we must do if we want to stop them—you simply must read this book.”
— Marc Thiessen, Washington Post Columnist and Bestselling Author of Courting Disaster

“Finally, we learn the true story about what ‘enhanced interrogation’ is, how it works, and how it protected America after the devastating attack of 9/11. The country owes a profound debt of gratitude to James Mitchell, who spent thousands of hours at CIA ‘black sites’ learning the secrets of men like Abu Zubaydah, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, as he and his dedicated colleagues scrambled to stop more deadly attacks on our nation.”
— Debra Burlingame, Cofounder of 9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America and Keep America Safe

“Emotions are high and accusations are being thrown about, but facts matter. Before anyone rushes to judgment, they should read this book and take in what happened through the eyes of a key player in the CIA’s interrogation program.”
— General Michael Hayden, Usaf, Ret., Former Cia Director

“The authentic account of head-to-head hardball with fanatical Islamic killers by a professional who not only won big for America, but did it while fending off powerful critics. The lessons learned needed to be told—and well-told they are. The war on us by radical Islamists is far from over—read and learn!”
— Hon. Porter J. Goss, Former Chairman of House Intelligence Committee and Cia Director

About the Author

DR. JAMES E. MITCHELL has a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of South Florida. He served twenty-two years in the U.S. Air Force and retired as a lieutenant colonel. From August 2002 through January 2009, Dr. Mitchell was involved in the development of the CIA's enhanced interrogation program and served as one of their interrogators from its inception until it was shut down by executive order on January 22, 2009.

BILL HARLOW is a writer, consultant, and public relations specialist with more than thirty years of experience. He spent seven years as the top spokesman for the CIA and four years at the White House handling national security media matters for two presidents. He has coauthored three New York Times bestsellers on intelligence.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1101906847
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Crown Forum; First Edition (November 29, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781101906842
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1101906842
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.15 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.38 x 1.28 x 9.52 inches

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Bill Harlow is a writer, consultant and public relations specialist. He spent seven years as the top spokesman for the Central Intelligence Agency. He co-authored George Tenet's #1 New York Times bestseller At the Center of the Storm.
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James E. Mitchell served as an interrogator for the CIA from August 2002 through January 2009. He was involved in the development of the CIA’s enhanced interrogation program and was one of their interrogators from its inception until President Barack Obama shut it down by executive order on January 22, 2009. He interrogated fourteen of the most senior so-called high-value detainees in U.S. custody, including Abu Zubaydah; Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the amir, or “commander,” of the USS Cole bombing; Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), the mastermind behind the September 11, 2001, terror attacks; Hambali, the Bali bomber; and Abu Faraj al-Libbi, the man who took over for KSM as the leader of terrorist attacks against the United States for al-Qa’ida, to name a few.
Dr. Mitchell served twenty-two years in the U.S. Air Force and retired as a lieutenant colonel including seven years at the USAF Survival School in Spokane, Washington.
In addition to his experiences as an interrogator, Dr. Mitchell is a law enforcement trained hostage negotiator and served on a hostage negotiation team. He has also consulted with military counterterrorist units, and the FBI, NSA, and CIA on divergent topics, including psychologically profiling war criminals, predicting violence, psychologically profiling and influencing foreign assets, surviving hostage situations, selection of individuals for high-risk missions, and handling hostages wired into improvised explosive devices during rescue.
Dr. Mitchell has a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of South Florida. He received his BS and master’s in psychology from the University of Alaska, Anchorage.
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Capitalist_Dad383

Excellent History of an Important Subject

Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2017

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Dr. James Mitchell recounts the history of the CIA's enhanced interrogation program and in doing so demonstrates the principled manner in which the agency developed the program while under intense pressure from the president and congress to act quickly. One significant point is the decision to restrict enhanced interrogations to a selection of those used in the military's SERE training for two reasons. First, these techniques had been proven safe over decades of training our own armed forces. Second, a restricted selection of techniques avoided freelance escalation that might occur in the absence of strict guidelines. Dr. Mitchell's description of interviews of high profile terrorist leaders helps us understand the successes, challenges, and limitations of the CIA interrogation program. He unflinchingly looks at certain instances where interrogators failed to follow guidelines; pointing out how CIA investigated, and referred cases to DOJ where appropriate. Mitchell also analyzes certain abuses outside the CIA program to show how they wound up destroying America's efforts to gather intelligence from captives. A sad and disappointing part of this story was how quickly politicians turned on the patriots trying in good faith to run the CIA program. The actions of Senator Diane Feinstein in her role on the Senate Select Intelligence Committee were especially dispicable: cherry picking information to reach a predetermined conclusion, not interviewing any CIA employees, and going so far as to leak the real names of CIA officers to the press--thus exposing them and their families to jihadi reprisals. In the final chapter Dr. Mitchell discusses what we've lost in abandoning the collection of human intelligence and the risks this poses for America. Overall, this is a comprehensive overview of the rise and fall of the enhanced interrogation program that is a must read for anyone interested in this chapter of the war against Islamist terrorism.

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Mallow

An interesting, and ultimately disturbing, insight

Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2017

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After a modest allowance for the fact that this is in part exculpatory and self-serving, I found the book very illuminating. Most important is a look into the black box of interrogation--how it works, and why it's not torture. But also important is the exposition of the vile duplicity of Sen. Feinstein and her (mostly Democrat) legislative colleagues who are prepared to hang out to dry those who did what they were asked, and obtained the information that the CIA desperately sought after 9/11. When she and her staff scum, aided by the malicious Eric Holder, retroactively attacked the interrogators, even selectively leaking adverse and contrived information to frame them, the confidentiality agreement with the CIA prevented full response. Why, one might ask, would any decent individual expose him- or herself to such abuse? And who will step up to do the interrogations? That's where we will all be the losers.

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Arizona Wayne

No Sugar-Coating here, Tell it like it was and is and name names!

Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2017

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Excellent book! I enjoyed reading this first-hand account of what happens in the interrogations. Do I believe the author, James Mitchell, an American patriot trying to set the record straight or a US Senator, Dianne Feinstein, who has been known to shade the truth and outright lie to "win" her cause? I'm going with the American Patriot. The book was interesting and I learned a great deal about how our enemies think and it explains their behavior in many cases. Trying to use my logic would have never explained some of the terrorists methods or tactics. The author learned as he went along and dealt with these terrorists and he explains this to the reader. James Mitchell humbly describes his "job" commitments and others that serve our great nation. I am so thankful to have men and women like James Mitchell who step up when needed to the call of duty to protect our nation. A big Thank You to James Mitchell for serving and for writing this wonderful book.

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Andre France

All in all it was very enlightening and showed the extremes clueless Democrats like California's Diane Feinstein are willing to

Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2017

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In a world filled with inaccurate and false reporting, it was refreshing to get a true and honest view (by the person who created the program with the advice of legal counsel) of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, their application and the results achieved in the war against terrorism. Waterboarding (sensationalized as the ultimate human torture) was used sparingly and was done to the people who used the program so that they could determine its effectiveness. All in all it was very enlightening and showed the extremes clueless Democrats like California's Diane Feinstein are willing to go to in order to make Republicans out to be monsters who have no regard for human rights. People need to be reminded that terrorists are just that...terrorists not soldiers and therefore do not deserve the protection of the Geneva Convention. Soldiers do not hide out in Mosques nor do they attack innocent civilians (men, women and children). Great book! A must read for those who seek the truth.

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The truth of our interrogation programs

Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2017

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The facts of this book clearly defend the actions of James Mitchell and The CIA. . Dianne Feinstein should resign her office or face some sort of charges for putting the lives of Mitchell and his family at risk, and for distorting the facts of interrogation to benefit the Obama administration. Mitchell presents his qualifications for his position, and describes in detail his extensive experience with interrogation and guidelines that prevent abuse of detainees. Anyone who doubts the validity of the facts of this book, need only to review newspaper reports by Carol Rosenberg in February of 2017 regarding the torture report being delivered to the federal courts and then consider the overwhelming contradiction of who is telling the truth, when in fact Mitchell and other CIA officers were NOT interviewed for this report. Five years and $40 million dollars for Feinstein to create a falsehood.
Excellent book that is filled with detailed facts.

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John

Un torturador justificando su trabajo

Reviewed in Spain on May 23, 2020

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Es insultante y doloros ver como los autores justifican la tortura que perpetraron sobre personas incocentes en Guantanamo. Hay que poder leer a verdugos y perpetradores para entenderlos, pero el cinismo del autor del libro demuestra el tipo de persona que es. Muchos incocentes en cárceles y este señor caminando por la calle.

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Johnh (Canada)

Excellent book

Reviewed in Canada on June 13, 2017

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This was an excellent very well written book that explained a lot of things that I had read about in the news but didn't fully understand or believe. Dr. Mitchell presents a fair and objective assessment of his role as a contractor for the CIA after the 9/11 attacks and why he did what he was asked to do and how he did it.

Murdocksan

Grande resoconto storico

Reviewed in Italy on August 18, 2017

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Storia dettagliata dell'uso di tecniche avanzate di interrogatorio. Un esempio di quali risultati La professionalità e la devozione di personale preparato può conseguire.

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Brian R Farmer

Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada on December 31, 2016

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Excellent, informantive

Frank Ch. Eigler

Straight talk

Reviewed in Canada on January 15, 2017

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What a shame that the author had to spend even 20% of the book defending his program from MSM/(D) misrepresentation. The truth is enthralling and frightening, and a call to clear-eyed view of the radical islamist threat.

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