Chain of Command

Seymour Hersh · first published 2004 · ISBN 9780060955373

After 9/11, the U.S. military and CIA remade their interrogation practices, abandoning the Geneva Conventions and official policy to extract information by force. Hersh's reporting traced the paper trail and interviewed the military officers who pushed back from inside. He documented Abu Ghraib not as aberration but as policy, and showed how it reached from the Pentagon into the White House.