It might seem that the topic would prove well-suited for this treatment, given the obvious - if excruciating - visual interest it provides.
This book is clearly meant to serve the same function as the duo's best-selling collaboration, The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation, making hundreds of pages of documents and testimony live and breathe using comic-book-style illustrations. Dianne Feinstein grilled Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, on apparently condoning waterboarding and other techniques.
President Trump takes an even stronger line on enhanced interrogation than Bush did, repeatedly saying "waterboarding works" and equating the practices explicitly with torture. Bush to authorize the techniques' further use.Ĭolón and writer Sid Jacobson must have begun work on this project long before the election, and yet events have made it more timely than could have been imagined even a few months ago. That certainty led the highest-ranking members of the CIA not only to authorize the use of brutal, often untested, dubiously effective interrogation techniques throughout the 2000s, but to mislead multiple branches of government and the media about their efficacy. There's even a besuited silhouette on the cover, hands shoved in his pockets, radiating placid certainty. These men are inevitably clad in that uniform of conservatism and civilization, the business suit. There are the detainees - usually nearly nude in frigid temperatures, their bodies wracked with agony - and there are the bureaucrats at whose mercy they suffer. Two types of people populate The Torture Report, a new graphical adaptation of the 2014 Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report on the use of enhanced interrogation techniques under George W. Book Reviews War On Terror In A Graphic-Novel NarrativeĮrnie Colón does a lot for a business suit.
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