A review by chelseamartinez
The Torture Report: A Graphic Adaptation by Sid Jacobson

3.0

This is a really good visual fact check of the CIA's torture program during the Bush administration, adapted from the 2014 Senate report on torture itself. The Afterword is also excellent and describes the uniqueness of the report as well as its shortcomings. The graphic novel itself would be great for a high school history course, I think. When I was in high school I always wished that we would cover the recent past, but we stopped at -30 years or so (pre-Tonkin Gulf Resolution, at the time). This is succinct, based in fact, but much less dry and humanizing to the victims of the CIA's torture campaigns. The sheer number of things it pinpoints as untruths from the CIA is impressive and makes me grateful to the Congressional staffers who did this work.