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Torture And the CIA

By Robert Siegel

Published December 26, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

Host Robert Siegel talks with Washington Post staff writer Dana Priest about the CIA's use of violence to obtain information from terrorist suspects, and their practice of shipping other suspects to countries the U.S. has condemned for using torture.

Robert Siegel

Prior to his retirement, Robert Siegel was the senior host of NPR's award-winning evening newsmagazine All Things Considered. With 40 years of experience working in radio news, Siegel hosted the country's most-listened-to, afternoon-drive-time news radio program and reported on stories and happenings all over the globe, and reported from a variety of locations across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. He signed off in his final broadcast of All Things Considered on January 5, 2018.

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