Inside the CIA Detention Program
The Senate Investigates Post-9/11 CIA “Black Site” Interrogations
On Sept. 17, 2001, six days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, President George W. Bush signed a covert action Memorandum of Notification (MON) to authorize the director of central intelligence (DCI) to “undertake operations designed to capture and detain persons who pose a continuing, serious threat of violence or death to U.S. persons and interests or who are planning terrorist activities.” …