The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found to be brutal, immoral and ineffective. With the truth at stake, Jones battled tirelessly to make public what many in power sought to keep hidden.
Acting
Driver's sweating, shaking desperation is career-best stuff.
Writing
Makes 6,000 pages of Senate reports genuinely gripping.
Direction
Burns turns fluorescent-lit offices into psychological torture chambers.
Director
Scott Z. Burns
Adam Driver
Daniel Jones
Annette Bening
Dianne Feinstein
Jon Hamm
Denis McDonough
Sarah Goldberg
April
Michael C. Hall
Thomas Eastman
Douglas Hodge
James Mitchell
Fajer Al-Kaisi
Ali Soufan
Ted Levine
John Brennan
Jennifer Morrison
Caroline Krass
Tim Blake Nelson
Raymond Nathan
Linda Powell
Marcy Morris
Matthew Rhys
New York Times Reporter
T. Ryder Smith
Bruce Jessen
Corey Stoll
Cyrus Clifford
Maura Tierney
Bernadette
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real 6,700-page report remains largely classified; only a 500-page summary was released in 2014.
Released same year the real Gina Haspel—who ran a black site—became CIA Director, making its silence on accountability feel even more damning.
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