The EITs: From Birth to Death

摘要

In Company Man, John Rizzo writes of his thirty years as a lawyer at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In many ways it is an incredible book. As Washington Post reporter Dana Priest stated in a blurb on the book's jacket, "I often found myself wondering why the CIA's prepublication censors signed off on some of it." Mr. Rizzo brings to light facts never before known, but as might be expected, he puts his best foot forward. The thrust of the book is Rizzo's-and the Agency's-embroilment in the now infamous Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EITs). These are the so-called techniques, beyond ordinary, acceptable interrogation, which Agency interrogators were permitted to use to extract information from prisoners. As the Agency's former counsel, Rizzo rigorously defends his involvement with the EITs from the start to their inglorious end. In so doing, he often goes overboard as Congress and the press ganged-up on him.