Host Kelly McEvers introduces Daniel J. Jones. the lead investigator of the Senate Intelligence Committee's Report on Enhanced Interrogation Techniques.
How the architects of the CIAs torture program convinced the CIA leadership to hire them as contractors to torture and interrogate detainees - despite having never run in a single interrogation themselves.
When the CIA decided to engage in torture, it needed a legal defense that would protect interrogators form being prosecuted. And for that they turned to a team of White House attorneys.
The release of the torture report was not always a given. The leadership at the CIA hoped it would stay classified and never be released to the public.