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**Product Details for "The Forever Prisoner: The Full and Searing Account of the CIA's Most Controversial Covert Program" by Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark:**

- Publisher: HarperCollins

- Language: English

- Paperback: 464 pages

- ISBN-10: 9356296359

- ISBN-13: 978-9356296350

- Item Weight: 480 grams

**Book Overview:**

"The Forever Prisoner: The Full and Searing Account of the CIA's Most Controversial Covert Program" by Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark is a comprehensive and revealing exploration of one of the most controversial and divisive CIA operations in recent history—the enhanced interrogation program.

Six months after the September 11 attacks, the CIA captured Abu Zubaydah, whom they believed to be the third-ranking member of Al Qaeda. Fearing another wave of attacks, the U.S. rendered him to a secret black site in Thailand. There, he encountered retired Air Force psychologist James Mitchell. The CIA believed that Zubaydah had been trained to resist traditional interrogation methods and was withholding crucial information. As a result, the agency authorized the use of brutal "enhanced interrogation techniques," which raised significant legal and ethical questions.

In "The Forever Prisoner," Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy provide a detailed account of what happened inside multiple black sites worldwide, as seen through the eyes of those involved. The book delves into the legal justifications, revealing how enhanced interrogation, considered a vital tool in the "War on Terror," spread over seven years to encompass numerous detainees in various locations, some of whom died during these interrogations.

The book also explores the significant human and financial cost of the "War on Terror," including the displacement of millions of people and the staggering expense of $8 trillion. Despite these efforts, the U.S. Senate concluded that enhanced interrogation amounted to torture and yielded no significant high-value intelligence.

"The Forever Prisoner" is based on four years of extensive reporting, interviews with key individuals who share their accounts for the first time, and the examination of thousands of previously classified documents. It sheds light on a shocking experiment that continues to make headlines twenty years after its inception, as the U.S. government obstructs attempts to expose war crimes.

Through the pages of this book, Abu Zubaydah, who remains imprisoned and silenced by the CIA's pledge to keep him incommunicado forever, raises critical questions about the detainees' continued imprisonment and the actions taken against them. It prompts reflection on whether they are held not only because of what they did but also because of what was done to them.