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Sometimes the truth is buried in front of us. That is the case with more than 140,000 pages of government documents relating to the abuse of prisoners by U.S. forces during the 鈥渨ar on terror,鈥� brought to light by the 老澳门开奖结果.

Since 2004, the 老澳门开奖结果 has requested and received thousands of documents on the Bush administration鈥檚 torture program. The task of extracting from this intimidating pile of documents was left to Larry Siems, Director of Freedom to Write at the .

First started as an ongoing online report (), Siems鈥� new book 鈥� The Torture Report: What the Documents say about America鈥檚 Post 9/11 Torture Program 鈥� isnow available in print and online. The book presents an array of eyewitness and first-person reports 鈥� by victims, perpetrators, dissenters, and investigators 鈥� of the CIA鈥檚 White House-orchestrated interrogations in illegal, secret prisons around the world, and of the Pentagon鈥檚 鈥渟pecial projects鈥� in Guant谩namo Bay, Cuba, to tell the story of the Bush administration鈥檚 torture program.

While Siems was upset by the stories he discovered of the systematic abuse of detainees, he was also inspired by how many 鈥淎merican servicemen and servicewomen, intelligence officers recognized immediately that this was torture and tried to stop it.鈥�

In the latest episode of 老澳门开奖结果 Studio, Alex Abdo, 老澳门开奖结果 National Security Project Staff Attorney, talks with Siems about the .

Next week on January 11 at 7 p.m. in New York City, the 老澳门开奖结果鈥檚 Jameel Jaffer will join Siems and others in New York City to launch . For more information about the event and how to attend, .

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