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Daniel Jones: The man who unveiled the CIA’s darkest secrets

Daniel Jones led a six-year investigation into the CIA's torture practices after 9/11.

Eighteen years since the 9/11 attack on the United States, and the impact still reverberates even as memories fade. The US Government responded by adopting a counter-terror strategy embracing ‘enhanced interrogation’, a euphemism for torture. Stephen Sackur interviews Daniel Jones, who led a six year investigation into the CIA’s darkest secrets. Now his story has been turned into a movie; but did America cease to care, long ago?

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Daniel Jones at the 2019 Telluride Film Festival (Credit: Vivien Killilea/Getty Images)

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